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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cubrid vs. Memcached vs. mSQL vs. Sphinx

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.31
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score20.74
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.67
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.memcached.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcubrid.org/­manualsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikisphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalHughes TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20162008200319942001
Current release11.0, January 20211.6.25, March 20244.4, October 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC, C++, JavaCCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesnoyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnono

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