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DBMS > Faircom DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Pinecone vs. Postgres-XL vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Pinecone vs. Postgres-XL vs. Solr

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Oracles in-memory data grid solutionA managed, cloud-native vector databaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeVector DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.pinecone.iowww.postgres-xl.orgsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencedocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperFairCom CorporationOraclePinecone Systems, IncApache Software Foundation
Initial release1979200720192014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2006
Current releaseV12, November 202014.1, August 202310 R1, October 20189.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++JavaCJava
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-freeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesString, Number, Booleanyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsnonoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Java
Python.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++nouser defined functionsJava plugins
Triggersyesyes infoLive Eventsyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).yes, with selectable consistency levelyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentconfigurableACID infoMVCCoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyes infooptionallyyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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