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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. FileMaker vs. Sphinx vs. TempoIQ

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Name	Cubrid  Xexclude from comparison	FileMaker  Xexclude from comparison	Sphinx  Xexclude from comparison	TempoIQ formerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
				TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
Description	CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP	FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.	Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases	Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Search engine	Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.02 Rank #173   Overall #84   Relational DBMS	Score 51.58 Rank #22   Overall #14   Relational DBMS	Score 7.23 Rank #61   Overall #8   Search engines
Website	cubrid.com (korean) cubrid.org (english)	www.claris.com/­filemaker	sphinxsearch.com	tempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentation	cubrid.org/­manuals	www.claris.com/­resources/­documentation	sphinxsearch.com/­docs
Developer	CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation	FileMaker a subsidiary of Apple	Sphinx Technologies Inc.	TempoIQ
Initial release	2008	1983	2001	2012
Current release	11.0, January 2021	19.4.1, November 2021	3.4.1, July 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache Version 2.0	commercial	Open Source GPL version 2, commercial licence available	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	yes
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Implementation language	C, C++, Java		C++
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	iOS client part only Linux OS X Windows	FreeBSD Linux NetBSD OS X Solaris Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	no	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.	no	yes A http query request can return the data in XML format		no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes full-text index on all search fields
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes via plugins	SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)	no
APIs and other access methods	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	Filemaker WebDirect JDBC ODBC	Proprietary protocol	HTTP API
Supported programming languages	C C# C++ Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Ruby	PHP	C++ unofficial client library Java Perl unofficial client library PHP Python Ruby unofficial client library	C# Java JavaScript Node.js Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	Java Stored Procedures	yes	no	no
Triggers	yes	yes	no	yes Realtime Alerts
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	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	Source-replica replication, warm standby since Version 14	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no	no	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	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.	no			no
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services	no	simple authentication-based access control
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