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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

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

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

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

galaxybase.com

greptime.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.greptime.com

Developer

FoundationDB

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Greptime Inc.

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2013

2017

2022

1993

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

Nov 20, November 2021

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

Strong typed schema

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

with some exceptions

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

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Go
Java
Python

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

user defined procedures and functions

Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Relationships in graphs

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

Role-based access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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