DBMS > EsgynDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Lovefield vs. MySQL vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Lovefield vs. MySQL vs. Sphinx

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Widely used open source RDBMS

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#191	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/apple/foundationdb

google.github.io/lovefield

www.mysql.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

dev.mysql.com/doc

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Esgyn

FoundationDB

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2015

2013

2014

1995

2001

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

2.1.12, February 2017

9.0.0, July 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

supported in specific SQL layer only

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

in SQL-layer only

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

in SQL-layer only

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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