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DBMS > Cubrid vs. EJDB vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. EJDB vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. Vitess

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NameCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.20
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitecubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
github.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4vitess.io
Technical documentationcubrid.org/­manualsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdsphinxsearch.com/­docsvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationSoftmotionsSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SCThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20082012200120112013
Current release11.0, January 20213.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 201515.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaCC++C#Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
server-lessFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
in-process shared libraryProprietary protocol.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
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
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresnononoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnononoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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