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DBMS > Blueflood vs. FoundationDB vs. Galaxybase vs. LeanXcale

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. FoundationDB vs. Galaxybase vs. LeanXcale

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Graph DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.09
Rank#353  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#188  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#375  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#283  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#128  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgalaxybase.comwww.leanxcale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiapple.github.io/­foundationdb
DeveloperRackspaceFoundationDBChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司LeanXcale
Initial release2013201320172015
Current release6.2.28, November 2020Nov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasStrong typed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyes infothrough Apache Derby
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Go
Java
Python
C
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyuser defined procedures and functions
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Linearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlyyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole-based access control

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