DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigchainDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Heroic vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigchainDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Heroic vs. NCache

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/apple/foundationdb

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

apple.github.io/foundationdb

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Amazon

FoundationDB

Spotify

Alachisoft

Initial release

2012

2016

2013

2014

2005

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

yes

partial

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

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Linearizable consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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 for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

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

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