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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

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

www.hawkular.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Community supported by Red Hat

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2008

2014

2013

2010

2021

Current release

11.0, January 2021

2.7.6, April 2024

V12

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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