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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Dgraph vs. Faircom DB vs. LokiJS vs. Sphinx

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NameCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.In-memory JavaScript DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.04
Rank#187  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitecubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
dgraph.iowww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationcubrid.org/­manualsdgraph.io/­docsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationDgraph Labs, Inc.FairCom CorporationSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20082016197920142001
Current release11.0, January 2021V12, November 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaGoANSI C, C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresnono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
JavaScript APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
JavaScriptC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++View functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication via Raftyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDtunable from ACID to Eventually Consistentno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes 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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoPlanned for future releasesFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesnono

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