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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. FoundationDB vs. LokiJS vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.In-memory JavaScript DBMSA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#126  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#191  Overall
#32  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score0.50
Rank#250  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsapple.github.io/­foundationdbtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperApache Software FoundationFoundationDBPercona
Initial release2012201320142015
Current release1.20.3, January 20236.2.28, November 20203.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantsupported in specific SQL layer onlynono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScriptActionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsin SQL-layer onlyView functions in JavaScriptJavaScript
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneLinearizable consistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenonoAccess rights for users and roles

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