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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Sphinx vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store

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Score	1.31
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#121	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.09
Rank	#351	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Website

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

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

sphinxsearch.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Percona

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2001

2019

Current release

11.0, January 2021

8.0.36-28, 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C and C++

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

none

yes, each node contains all data

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

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.

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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