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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. OrientDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

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

Widely used in-process key-value store

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

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

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

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

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

orientdb.org

origodb.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

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

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

origodb.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Robert Friberg et al

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2008

1994

2010

2009

under the name LiveDB

2009

Current release

11.0, January 2021

18.1.40, May 2020

3.2.29, March 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

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

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

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

.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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Java, Javascript

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Hooks

yes

Domain Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

depending on model

links between data sets can be stored

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

Write ahead log

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Role based authorization

yes, using Riak Security

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