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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. FoundationDB vs. NSDb vs. Warp 10

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

github.com/apple/foundationdb

nsdb.io

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

apple.github.io/foundationdb

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

FoundationDB

SenX

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

2015

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

6.2.28, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
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: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

supported in specific SQL layer only

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in SQL-layer only

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Linearizable consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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