DBMS > Cubrid vs. Kingbase vs. mSQL vs. SAP HANA vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Kingbase vs. mSQL vs. SAP HANA vs. VoltDB

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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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.kingbase.com.cn

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

help.sap.com/hana

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Hughes Technologies

SAP

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2008

1999

1994

2010

Current release

11.0, January 2021

V8.0, August 2021

4.4, October 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C and Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

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

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

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

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

yes

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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