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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.kingbase.com.cn

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

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

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

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

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2008

1999

2015

2020

1987

Current release

11.0, January 2021

V8.0, August 2021

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C and Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

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

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C++

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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