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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Solr vs. StarRocks vs. Yaacomo

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbmachbase.comsolr.apache.orgwww.starrocks.ioyaacomo.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbmachbase.com/­dbmssolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperFoundationDBMachbaseApache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20132013200620202009
Current release6.2.28, November 2020V8.0, August 20239.6.1, May 20242.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)LinuxAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query languageSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyesyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
MySQL protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynoJava pluginsuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic lockingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovolatile and lookup tableyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlyesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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