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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenSearch vs. searchxml vs. SiriDB

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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.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

siridb.com

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.siridb.com

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

informationpartners gmbh

Cesbit

Initial release

1979

1989

2021

2015

2017

Current release

V12, November 2020

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

easily portable to other OSs

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

Numeric data

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

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
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

none

Sharding

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, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

simple rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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