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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. FoundationDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. STSdb

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Event Store

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.eventstore.com

github.com/apple/foundationdb

boilerbay.com

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

apple.github.io/foundationdb

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Event Store Limited

FoundationDB

Boiler Bay Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2013

2002

2013

2011

Current release

21.2, February 2021

6.2.28, November 2020

4.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

proprietary protocol using JSON

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Java

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

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