DBMS > Faircom DB vs. OpenSearch vs. Prometheus vs. Solr vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. OpenSearch vs. Prometheus vs. Solr vs. WakandaDB

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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.

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

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

prometheus.io

solr.apache.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

opensearch.org/docs/latest

prometheus.io/docs

solr.apache.org/resources.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Amazon Web Services

Apache Software Foundation

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1979

2021

2015

2006

2012

Current release

V12, November 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

9.6.1, May 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

easily portable to other OSs

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

schema-free

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

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

Numeric data only

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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.

Import of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

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

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Java plugins

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

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

by Federation

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Eventual Consistency

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

none

Eventual Consistency

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

optimistic locking

ACID

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

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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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

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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