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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Geode vs. mSQL vs. Sequoiadb

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Graph DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgalaxybase.comgeode.apache.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbgeode.apache.org/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperFoundationDBChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Hughes TechnologiesSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20132017200219942013
Current release6.2.28, November 2020Nov 20, November 20211.1, February 20174.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and JavaJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasStrong typed schemaschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoSQL-like query language (OQL)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Go
Java
Python
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined procedures and functionsuser defined functionsnoJavaScript
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes, on a single nodenoDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlAccess rights per client and object definablenosimple password-based access control

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