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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Blueflood vs. FoundationDB vs. OrigoDB

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

blueflood.io

github.com/apple/foundationdb

origodb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

apple.github.io/foundationdb

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Rackspace

FoundationDB

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2013

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

15585

6.2.28, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

some layers support typing

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

supported in specific SQL layer only

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in SQL-layer only

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Linearizable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

depending on model

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

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role based authorization

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