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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. FoundationDB vs. Riak KV

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	1.07
Rank	#188	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	4.44
Rank	#80	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

FoundationDB

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2008

2013

2009

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

6.2.28, November 2020

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

supported in specific SQL layer only

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

Erlang

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

in SQL-layer only

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes, using Riak Security

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