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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. IRONdb vs. Kingbase vs. Realm

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

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

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.kingbase.com.cn

realm.io

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

realm.io/docs

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Circonus LLC.

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2008

2017

1999

2014

Current release

11.0, January 2021

V0.10.20, January 2018

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C and C++

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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 query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Supported programming languages

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

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

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

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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