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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. EventStoreDB vs. FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. NuoDB

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelKey-value storeEvent StoreDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitecachelot.iowww.eventstore.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.gbase.cnwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comapple.github.io/­foundationdbdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedFoundationDBGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20152012201320042013
Current release21.2, February 20216.2.28, November 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C, Java, PythonC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlyStandard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsJava, SQL
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlyyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyesStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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