DBMS > Cubrid vs. Infobright vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Infobright vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.mireo.com/spacetime

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Mireo

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2008

2005

2020

2001

2020

Current release

11.0, January 2021

3.5.1, February 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
C++
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes

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