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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Vitess vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#209	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

vitess.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

vitess.io/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

SAP

formerly Sybase

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2008

1992

2013

2019

Current release

11.0, January 2021

17, July 2015

15.0.2, December 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at shard level

ACID

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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