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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Immudb vs. RocksDB

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

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

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

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

Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/apple/foundationdb

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.immudb.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

FoundationDB

Codenotary

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2020

2013

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

1.2.3, April 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

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

supported in specific SQL layer only

SQL-like syntax

APIs and other access methods

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

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