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

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  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 OLTPOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.A 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 engineVector 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
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
sphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
github.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgcubrid.org/­manualssphinxsearch.com/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviateydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.Weaviate B.V.Yandex
Initial release20142008200120192019
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201911.0, January 20213.5.1, February 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate EnterpriseOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++, JavaC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes
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 fieldsyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)GraphQL is used as query languageSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocolGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
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
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored Proceduresnonono
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 replicationnoneyesActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
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.yesnoyesno
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-standardnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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Apache PhoenixCubridSphinxWeaviateYDB
Specific characteristicsWeaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesFlexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosAs a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersAll companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAs of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsWeaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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