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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. EJDB vs. Riak TS vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

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

Primary database model

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Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Softmotions

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2008

2012

2015

2001

Current release

11.0, January 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

restricted

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

in-process shared library

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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