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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. mSQL vs. NCache vs. NSDb vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

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

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

nsdb.io

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Hughes Technologies

Alachisoft

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2008

1994

2005

2017

2012

Current release

11.0, January 2021

4.4, October 2021

5.3.3, April 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java, Scala

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

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

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes: int, bigint, decimal, 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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Java
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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