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

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NameCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitecubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
dgraph.iosphinxsearch.comsurrealdb.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationcubrid.org/­manualsdgraph.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationDgraph Labs, Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.SurrealDB LtdAlex Kashirin
Initial release20082016200120222020
Current release11.0, January 20213.5.1, February 2023v1.5.0, May 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaGoC++RustC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Proprietary protocolGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication via Raftnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoPlanned for future releasesnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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