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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. NCache vs. Riak TS vs. Trino

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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

Score	1.03
Rank	#190	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.gbase.cn

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

trino.io

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

FoundationDB

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Alachisoft

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2013

2004

2005

2015

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.3.3, April 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, Python

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

restricted

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

user defined functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Erlang

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

yes

Sharding

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

SQL standard access control

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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