DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Faircom DB vs. RocksDB vs. StarRocks vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Faircom DB vs. RocksDB vs. StarRocks vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

rocksdb.org

www.starrocks.io

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

FairCom Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2015

1979

2013

2020

2016

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

V12, November 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

C++

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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