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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. EJDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Newts vs. Transbase

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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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.57
Rank	#244	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/apple/foundationdb

opennms.github.io/newts

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

apple.github.io/foundationdb

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Softmotions

FoundationDB

OpenNMS Group

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2017

2012

2013

2014

1987

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

6.2.28, November 2020

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

yes

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

in-process shared library

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in SQL-layer only

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write 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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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