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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

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

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.07
Rank	#376	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

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

milvus.io

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

cubrid.org/manuals

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2023

2008

2019

2020

Current release

11.0, January 2021

2.4.4, May 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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