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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. FoundationDB vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV vs. Spark SQL

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.In-memory JavaScript DBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiapple.github.io/­foundationdbtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperRackspaceFoundationDBOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesApache Software Foundation
Initial release20132013201420092014
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.2.0, December 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaScriptErlangScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingnonoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia viewsrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlynonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJavaScript APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyView functions in JavaScriptErlangno
Triggersnonoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"yes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesnoneselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Linearizable consistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlynono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoyes, using Riak Securityno

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