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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MySQL vs. OpenSearch vs. Raima Database Manager

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Search engine

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.46
Rank	#259	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.mysql.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

raima.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

dev.mysql.com/doc

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.raima.com

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Amazon Web Services

Raima Inc.

Initial release

2008

2010

1995

2021

1984

Current release

11.0, January 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

15, June 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Erlang

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

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.

yes

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

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 operations within a document possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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Competitive advantages

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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