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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. Apache Drill vs. Fauna vs. FoundationDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameApache Doris  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionAn MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocolSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.60
Rank#247  Overall
#113  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitedoris.apache.org
github.com/­apache/­doris
drill.apache.orgfauna.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­apache/­doris/­wikidrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.fauna.comapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from BaiduApache Software FoundationFauna, Inc.FoundationDB
Initial release20172012201420132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release1.2.2, February 20231.20.3, January 20236.2.28, November 202010 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++C
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono infosome layers support typingyes
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnosupported in specific SQL layer onlyyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaC++C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsuser defined functionsin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functions
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesin SQL-layer onlyyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noDepending on the underlying data sourcenono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourceIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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