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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. KeyDB vs. Kingbase vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

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

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.kingbase.com.cn

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.keydb.dev

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2008

2019

1999

1994

Current release

11.0, January 2021

V8.0, August 2021

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

simple password-based access control and ACL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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