DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. FoundationDB vs. Ingres vs. MonetDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FoundationDB vs. Ingres vs. MonetDB vs. SwayDB

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Well established RDBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#188	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	4.67
Rank	#77	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.monetdb.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.actian.com/ingres

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

FoundationDB

Actian Corporation

MonetDB BV

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2013

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2004

2018

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

11.2, May 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

in SQL-layer only

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding via remote tables

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Ingres Replicator

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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