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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Cubrid vs. DuckDB vs. Sphinx

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitephoenix.apache.orgcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
duckdb.orgsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgcubrid.org/­manualsduckdb.org/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2014200820182001
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201911.0, January 20210.10, February 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++, JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-lessFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored Proceduresnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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