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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Derby vs. Dgraph vs. FatDB vs. Sphinx

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NameCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.04
Rank#187  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitecubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
db.apache.org/­derbydgraph.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationcubrid.org/­manualsdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldgraph.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationApache Software FoundationDgraph Labs, Inc.FatCloudSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20081997201620122001
Current release11.0, January 202110.17.1.0, November 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaJavaGoC#C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
WindowsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnono infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBCGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresJava Stored Proceduresnoyes infovia applicationsno
Triggersyesyesnoyes infovia applicationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication via Raftselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoPlanned for future releasesno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsno

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