DBMS > Cubrid vs. IRONdb vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. IRONdb vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV 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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

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

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

pouchdb.com

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

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

pouchdb.com/guides

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Circonus LLC.

Apache Software Foundation

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Splice Machine

Initial release

2008

2017

2012

2009

2014

Current release

11.0, January 2021

V0.10.20, January 2018

7.1.1, June 2019

3.2.0, December 2022

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

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

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

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

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Solaris
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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

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

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes, in Lua

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

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

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

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

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