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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Cubrid vs. Machbase Neo vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

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

machbase.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

cubrid.org/manuals

machbase.com/dbms

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

DGraph Labs

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Machbase

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2017

2008

2013

2001

Current release

11.0, January 2021

V8.0, August 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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