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System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. FoundationDB vs. OrigoDB vs. SQLite

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#19  Object oriented DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebolt.iogithub.com/­apple/­foundationdborigodb.comwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.ioapple.github.io/­foundationdborigodb.com/­docswww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.FoundationDBRobert Friberg et alDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release202020132009 infounder the name LiveDB2000
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C#C
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyessupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.NetActionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyyesno
Triggersnonoyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlydepending on modelyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based authorizationno

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