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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. FatDB vs. HBase vs. RocksDB vs. StarRocks

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

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

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

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

Developer

Esgyn

FatCloud

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Facebook, Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2015

2012

2008

2013

2020

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

yes

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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