DBMS > Datomic vs. FoundationDB vs. Memcached vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. FoundationDB vs. Memcached vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#190	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.memcached.org

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

apple.github.io/foundationdb

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Cognitect

FoundationDB

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2013

2003

2013

1992

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

6.2.28, November 2020

1.6.25, March 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

in SQL-layer only

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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