DBMS > Cubrid vs. LevelDB vs. NuoDB vs. Vertica vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. LevelDB vs. NuoDB vs. Vertica vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#209	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/google/leveldb

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.vertica.com

vitess.io

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

doc.nuodb.com

vertica.com/documentation

vitess.io/docs

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Google

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2008

2011

2013

2005

2013

Current release

11.0, January 2021

1.23, February 2021

12.0.3, January 2023

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

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

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Java, SQL

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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