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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Dgraph vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx vs. SWC-DB

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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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

dgraph.io

rocksdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

dgraph.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2008

2016

2013

2001

2020

Current release

11.0, January 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

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

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

none

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

yes

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

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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