DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BaseX vs. Cubrid vs. mSQL vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BaseX vs. Cubrid vs. mSQL vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

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Score	19.03
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	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

basex.org

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

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.basex.org

cubrid.org/manuals

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BaseX GmbH

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Hughes Technologies

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2012

2007

2008

1994

2001

Current release

10.7, August 2023

11.0, January 2021

4.4, October 2021

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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 on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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