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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Interbase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Lovefield

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Embarcadero

InterSystems

Google

Initial release

2008

1984

1997

2014

Current release

11.0, January 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2018.1.4, May 2020

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Interbase Change Views

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

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

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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