DBMS > Faircom DB vs. OushuDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Solr vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. OushuDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Solr vs. StarRocks

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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 data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

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

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

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.postgres-xl.org

solr.apache.org

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

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

www.oushu.com/documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

solr.apache.org/resources.html

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

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Oushu

Apache Software Foundation

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

1979

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2006

2020

Current release

V12, November 2020

4.0.1, August 2020

10 R1, October 2018

9.6.1, May 2024

3.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

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

easily portable to other OSs

Linux

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux

Data scheme

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

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

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++

.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

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

user defined functions

Java plugins

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

yes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

MVCC

optimistic locking

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

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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