DBMS > CrateDB vs. Cubrid vs. mSQL vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Cubrid vs. mSQL vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Distributed Database based on Lucene

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

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

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.73
Rank	#229	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

cratedb.com

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

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.snowflake.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

cratedb.com/docs

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Crate

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Hughes Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2013

2008

1994

2014

2001

Current release

11.0, January 2021

4.4, October 2021

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

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

C++

Server operating systems

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

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

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

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

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

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.

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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