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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. PostGIS vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB

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NameCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.04
Rank#187  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitecubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlpostgis.netsphinxsearch.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationcubrid.org/­manualsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationOracleSphinx Technologies Inc.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20082011200520012018
Current release11.0, January 202124.1, May 20243.4.2, February 20243.5.1, February 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaJavaCC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesnoyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocolOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infooff heap cacheno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoRole-based access control

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