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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. FoundationDB vs. Interbase vs. LMDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.lmdb.tech/­docwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBFoundationDBEmbarcaderoSymas
Initial release20122013198420112014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20216.2.28, November 2020InterBase 2020, December 20190.9.32, January 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++CCC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsno infosome layers support typingyesyes
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.nono infoexport as XML data possiblenoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenouser defined functions
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesInterbase Change Viewsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlyyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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