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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. MonetDB vs. Newts vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.monetdb.org

opennms.github.io/newts

postgis.net

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

postgis.net/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

MonetDB BV

OpenNMS Group

quasardb

Initial release

2008

2004

2014

2005

2009

Current release

11.0, January 2021

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

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

Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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