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DBMS > BoltDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SurrealDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Search engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdblearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperFoundationDBMicrosoftSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2013201320152022
Current release6.2.28, November 2020V1v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenono infosome layers support typingyesyes
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 onlynoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACID
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes infousing Azure authenticationyes, based on authentication and database rules

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