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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. FoundationDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Sequoiadb

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

github.com/apple/foundationdb

objectbox.io

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.objectbox.io

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

FoundationDB

ObjectBox Limited

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2013

2017

2013

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

supported in specific SQL layer only

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

in SQL-layer only

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

simple password-based access control

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