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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. HarperDB vs. MySQL vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

HarperDB takes the "stack" out of "tech stack" by combining an ultra-fast document-style data store, in-memory cache, real-time message broker, and your application components into a single distributed technology.

Widely used open source RDBMS

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.97
Rank	#189	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#243	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.harperdb.io

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.harperdb.io/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

HarperDB

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2008

2017

1995

1998

Current release

11.0, January 2021

3.1, August 2021

9.0.0, July 2024

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Node.js

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

proprietary syntax

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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