DBMS > BaseX vs. Cubrid vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Cubrid vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

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

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Search engine

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

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

basex.org

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

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

FairCom Corporation

Google

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2007

2008

1979

2017

2001

Current release

11.0, June 2024

11.0, January 2021

V3, October 2020

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

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

ANSI C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

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

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

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