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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. FoundationDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Riak KV

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	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

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

bangdb.com

github.com/apple/foundationdb

origodb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

apple.github.io/foundationdb

origodb.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

FoundationDB

Robert Friberg et al

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2013

2009

under the name LiveDB

2009

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

6.2.28, November 2020

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

supported in specific SQL layer only

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Domain Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Linearizable consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

depending on model

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Role based authorization

yes, using Riak Security

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