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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. etcd vs. Snowflake vs. YDB

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

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

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.snowflake.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2008

2014

2019

Current release

11.0, January 2021

3.4, August 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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