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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. FoundationDB vs. NCache vs. Rockset

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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

Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#191	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

rockset.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.rockset.com

Developer

4D, Inc

FoundationDB

Alachisoft

Rockset

Initial release

1984

2013

2005

2019

Current release

v20, April 2023

6.2.28, November 2020

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

supported in specific SQL layer only

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in SQL-layer only

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

in SQL-layer only

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Users and groups

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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