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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Cubrid vs. Rockset vs. Sphinx vs. SwayDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitealtibase.comcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
rockset.comsphinxsearch.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualscubrid.org/­manualsdocs.rockset.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationRocksetSphinx Technologies Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release19992008201920012018
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202311.0, January 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++, JavaC++C++Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingnono
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsJava Stored Proceduresnonono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic shardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenono

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