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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. FoundationDB vs. Qdrant

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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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

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

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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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	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#8	Vector DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

github.com/apple/foundationdb

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

apple.github.io/foundationdb

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

FoundationDB

Qdrant

Initial release

2012

2013

2021

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

6.2.28, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

some layers support typing

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

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

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

Collection-level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Linearizable consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

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, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

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)

Key-based authentication

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