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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. JaguarDB vs. LokiJS vs. MonetDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.monetdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

DataJaguar, Inc.

MonetDB BV

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2008

2015

2014

2004

1987

Current release

11.0, January 2021

3.3 July 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

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

JavaScript

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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