About CUBRID
CUBRID is a comprehensive open source relational database management system highly optimized for Web Applications, especially when complex web services process large amount of data and generate huge concurrent requests. By providing unique optimized features, CUBRID enables to process much more parallel requests at much less response time. With CUBRID, organization will benefit from superior performance, stability, scalability, and high availability required by companies to provide non-stop services to their valuable customers.
Why Use CUBRID
CUBRID has been developed since 2006, and today it is becoming very popular because of its clean and highly optimized for Web Applications Software Architecture, as well as rich database functionality. Its code base has undergone complete optimization and intensive quality assurance. CUBRID is being used by many SME companies and large organizations, the latter having a farm of over 10,000 data servers. (See Who else uses CUBRID?)
CUBRID, unlike other database systems, does not have an Enterprise version of its DBMS. It do not distinguish its license policy between Community and Enterprise. There is only one version of CUBRID DBMS, which follows General Public License version 2 or higher. This CUBRID Open Source License Policy is extremely beneficial for companies dealing with client applications development. They do not have to purchase any Enterprise License or share their income. This provides the organizations the significant cost savings opportunity over the alternative database management solutions. (See complete article on CUBRID Open Source License Policy.)
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for a CUBRID based database solution is significantly lower than the alternatives due to hardware costs savings. CUBRID's high performance, its optimizations and perfect scaling mean that organizations can deploy cheaper hardware and still provide 24/7 up-time service for the same number of concurrent users.
Who else uses CUBRID
CUBRID is being actively used by IT industry leader in Korea – NHN Corporation, which breeds a farm of over 10,000 servers. In addition, large Hosting companies Cafe24 and Mireene, Software Security company ESTsoft, and many Korean local colleges manage their data with CUBRID. Two third of all CUBRID references come from the Government sector. Korea National Tax Service, Korea Ministry of Public Administration and Security, Korea Ministry of National Defense, Busan Transportation Corporation, and Korea White House are major customers who deployed CUBRID as their major database management software. Just imagine how much sensitive data do they all have, how much security do they all require, and they all chose CUBRID as their database management solution. CUBRID helped many organizations gain greater results and achieve faster performance at a lower cost of ownership.
Download CUBRID
CUBRID is totally free and open source. It runs on Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems. CUBRID is available for both 32 and 64 bit operating systems, and provides easy installation and GUI-based database administration tool to support developer accessibility and manageability. Get your copy of CUBRID Database Server for free now!
