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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

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

Primary database model

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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

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

google.github.io/lovefield

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

rdf4j.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

rdf4j.org/documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Google

Oracle

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2008

2014

2007

2004

2001

Current release

11.0, January 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

14.1, August 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java

Java
PHP
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

configurable

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

optionally

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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