DBMS > Cubrid vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. mSQL vs. TimescaleDB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. mSQL vs. TimescaleDB vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

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

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#187	Overall
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Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
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Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

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

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.timescale.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.timescale.com

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Kyligence, Inc.

Hughes Technologies

Timescale

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2008

2016

1994

2017

2010

Current release

11.0, January 2021

4.4, October 2021

2.15.0, May 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
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, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

Multi-source replication
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

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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