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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle NoSQL

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Name

Description

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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

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

memgraph.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

memgraph.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Oracle

Initial release

2008

2017

1989

2021

2011

Current release

11.0, January 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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