DBMS > Cubrid vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Widely used in-process key-value store

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

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

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

SAP

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2008

1995

1994

2010

2003

Current release

11.0, January 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

18.1.40, May 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C and C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

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

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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