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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Cubrid vs. Sphinx vs. Trafodion vs. YDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 OLTPOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#187  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
sphinxsearch.comtrafodion.apache.orggithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgcubrid.org/­manualssphinxsearch.com/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPYandex
Initial release20142008200120142019
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201911.0, January 20213.5.1, February 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++, JavaC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored ProceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnoneyes, via HBaseActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
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-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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