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DBMS > Cubrid vs. Interbase vs. mSQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Interbase vs. mSQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx

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NameCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.31
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score5.04
Rank#71  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#78  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitecubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationcubrid.org/­manualsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationEmbarcaderoHughes TechnologiesSAP infoformerly SybaseSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20081984199419922001
Current release11.0, January 2021InterBase 2020, December 20194.4, October 202117, July 20153.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaCCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nono infoexport as XML data possiblenoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationInterbase Change ViewsnoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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