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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. FoundationDB vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
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
Search engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitebangdb.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comapple.github.io/­foundationdbsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBFoundationDBSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release2012201320012011
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20216.2.28, November 20203.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++C++C#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsno infosome layers support typingnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.no
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlynono
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyLinearizable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
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 mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)nonono

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