DBMS > Badger vs. FoundationDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. LevelDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. FoundationDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. LevelDB vs. RocksDB

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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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

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

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

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

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/apple/foundationdb

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

github.com/google/leveldb

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

apple.github.io/foundationdb

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

DGraph Labs

FoundationDB

Kyligence, Inc.

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2013

2016

2011

2013

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

1.23, February 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

supported in specific SQL layer only

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

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