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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. IRONdb vs. Oracle vs. PouchDB vs. Splice Machine

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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

Widely used RDBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.97
Rank	#189	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#244	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

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

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

www.oracle.com/database

pouchdb.com

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database

pouchdb.com/guides

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Circonus LLC.

Oracle

Apache Software Foundation

Splice Machine

Initial release

2008

2017

1980

2012

2014

Current release

11.0, January 2021

V0.10.20, January 2018

23c, September 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C and C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

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

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

JavaScript

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes, in Lua

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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