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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. EsgynDB vs. Fauna vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Search engine

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Score	1.31
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#72	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

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

www.esgyn.cn

fauna.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.fauna.com

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Esgyn

Fauna, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2008

2015

2014

2001

Current release

11.0, January 2021

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++, Java

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

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

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

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.

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

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