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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. FoundationDB vs. OpenEdge 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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

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

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Primary database model

Event Store

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.07
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

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

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.progress.com/openedge

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

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

apple.github.io/foundationdb

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Event Store Limited

FoundationDB

Progress Software Corporation

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2013

1984

1992

Current release

21.2, February 2021

6.2.28, November 2020

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

yes

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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