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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. FoundationDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Warp 10

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#190	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

github.com/apple/foundationdb

origodb.com

www.postgres-xl.org

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

apple.github.io/foundationdb

origodb.com/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

BaseX GmbH

FoundationDB

Robert Friberg et al

SenX

Initial release

2007

2013

2009

under the name LiveDB

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2015

Current release

10.7, August 2023

6.2.28, November 2020

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

some layers support typing

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in SQL-layer only

yes

user defined functions

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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