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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. MariaDB vs. Prometheus vs. Riak KV vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#304	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores
	#136	Relational DBMS

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

prometheus.io

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

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

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

prometheus.io/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

FairCom Corporation

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

1979

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2015

2009

2001

Current release

V12, November 2020

11.3.2, February 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

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

easily portable to other OSs

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

Numeric data only

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.

yes

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

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).

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

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Specific characteristics

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