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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Hive vs. KairosDB vs. TiDB vs. Trafodion

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NameCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.20
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitecubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
hive.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbpingcap.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationcubrid.org/­manualscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homekairosdb.github.iodocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stabletrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookPingCAP, Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20082012201320162014
Current release11.0, January 20213.1.3, April 20221.2.2, November 20188.0.0, March 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaJavaJavaGo, RustC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by key range)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes infowith TiSpark Connectoryes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infofull support since version 6.6yes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple password-based access controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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CubridHiveKairosDBTiDBTrafodion
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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