DBMS > Altibase vs. Faircom DB vs. FoundationDB vs. RocksDB vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Faircom DB vs. FoundationDB vs. RocksDB vs. Splice Machine

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

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

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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

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

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

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

github.com/apple/foundationdb

rocksdb.org

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

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

apple.github.io/foundationdb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Altibase

FairCom Corporation

FoundationDB

Facebook, Inc.

Splice Machine

Initial release

1999

1979

2013

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

V12, November 2020

6.2.28, November 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

ANSI C, C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

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

easily portable to other OSs

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

some layers support 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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

in SQL-layer only

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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