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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Graphite vs. SAP HANA vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score44.27
Rank#23  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbgraphite.readthedocs.iohelp.sap.com/­hanadocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperFoundationDBChris DavisSAPRocket Software
Initial release20132013200620101985
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageGoC++PythonC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Appliance or cloud-serviceAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenono infosome layers support typingNumeric data onlyyesoptional
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnononoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlynoSQLScript, Ryes
Triggersnononoyesyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneLinearizable consistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACIDACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoyesAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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