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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Hypertable vs. Ingres vs. Lovefield vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Well established RDBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

google.github.io/lovefield

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.actian.com/ingres

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Hypertable Inc.

Actian Corporation

Google

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2008

2009

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2014

2012

Current release

11.0, January 2021

0.9.8.11, March 2016

11.2, May 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

JavaScript

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Thrift

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

Ingres Replicator

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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