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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Cubrid vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

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Name	AlaSQL  Xexclude from comparison	Cubrid  Xexclude from comparison	Sphinx  Xexclude from comparison	STSdb  Xexclude from comparison
Description	JavaScript DBMS library	CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP	Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases	Key-Value Store with special method for indexing optimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database model	Document store Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Search engine	Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.55 Rank #232   Overall #35   Document stores #111   Relational DBMS	Score 1.02 Rank #173   Overall #84   Relational DBMS	Score 7.23 Rank #61   Overall #8   Search engines	Score 0.01 Rank #359   Overall #56   Key-value stores
Website	alasql.org	cubrid.com (korean) cubrid.org (english)	sphinxsearch.com	github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentation	github.com/­agershun/­alasql	cubrid.org/­manuals	sphinxsearch.com/­docs
Developer	Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff	CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation	Sphinx Technologies Inc.	STS Soft SC
Initial release	2014	2008	2001	2011
Current release		11.0, January 2021	3.4.1, July 2021	4.0.8, September 2015
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source MIT-License	Open Source Apache Version 2.0	Open Source GPL version 2, commercial licence available	Open Source GPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	JavaScript	C, C++, Java	C++	C#
Server operating systems	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)	Linux Windows	FreeBSD Linux NetBSD OS X Solaris Windows	Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	yes	no	yes primitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes full-text index on all search fields	no
SQL Support of SQL	Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.	yes	SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)	no
APIs and other access methods	JavaScript API	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	Proprietary protocol	.NET Client API
Supported programming languages	JavaScript	C C# C++ Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Ruby	C++ unofficial client library Java Perl unofficial client library PHP Python Ruby unofficial client library	C# Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	Java Stored Procedures	no	no
Triggers	yes	yes	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	none	Sharding Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	Source-replica replication	none	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes only for local storage and DOM-storage	ACID	no	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data		yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage	yes	yes The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no
User concepts Access control	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no	no
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