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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Dgraph vs. Newts vs. Sphinx vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

dgraph.io

opennms.github.io/newts

sphinxsearch.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

dgraph.io/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

OpenNMS Group

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2008

2016

2014

2001

2000

Current release

11.0, January 2021

3.5.1, February 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

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

Java

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

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

Synchronous replication via Raft

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

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

Planned for future releases

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