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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. FoundationDB vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2 vs. RocksDB

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.03
Rank	#190	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

github.com/apple/foundationdb

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.ibm.com/products/db2

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

apple.github.io/foundationdb

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

FoundationDB

Chris Davis

IBM

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2013

2006

1983

host version

2013

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

12.1, October 2016

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Python

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

Numeric data only

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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