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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Informix vs. STSdb vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

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Trend Chart

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	17.12
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

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

www.ibm.com/products/informix

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2008

1984

2011

2009

Current release

11.0, January 2021

14.10.FC5, November 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C, C++ and Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

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

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

C#
Java

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

optional

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

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

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