DBMS > BaseX vs. Cubrid vs. HyperSQL vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Cubrid vs. HyperSQL vs. Snowflake 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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

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

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

basex.org

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

hsqldb.org

www.snowflake.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

cubrid.org/manuals

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2007

2008

2001

2014

2001

Current release

10.7, August 2023

11.0, January 2021

2.7.2, June 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

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

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports 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

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

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
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

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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