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System Properties Comparison atoti vs. EJDB vs. FoundationDB vs. jBASE

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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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Multivalue DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

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

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

atoti.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

ActiveViam

Softmotions

FoundationDB

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2012

2013

1991

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

some layers support typing

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

supported in specific SQL layer only

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

in SQL-layer only

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

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

Linearizable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

in SQL-layer only

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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