DBMS > Cubrid vs. Lovefield vs. mSQL vs. SpaceTime vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Lovefield vs. mSQL vs. SpaceTime vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

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

google.github.io/lovefield

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.mireo.com/spacetime

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Google

Hughes Technologies

Mireo

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2008

2014

1994

2020

2018

Current release

11.0, January 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

JavaScript

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C#
C++
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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