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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Microsoft Access vs. Pinecone vs. Sphinx

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NameCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A managed, cloud-native vector databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.97
Rank#189  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#87  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitecubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.pinecone.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationcubrid.org/­manualsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationMicrosoftPinecone Systems, IncSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2008199220192001
Current release11.0, January 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanno
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
PythonC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes 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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no

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