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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Galaxybase vs. LevelDB vs. NuoDB vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Galaxybase vs. LevelDB vs. NuoDB vs. Tkrzw

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 platformEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Graph DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
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
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgalaxybase.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasedbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperFoundationDBChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司GoogleDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Mikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20132017201120132020
Current release6.2.28, November 2020Nov 20, November 20211.23, February 20210.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and JavaC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasStrong typed schemaschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesnoyesno
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 indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Go
Java
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined procedures and functionsnoJava, SQLno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTemporary tableyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlnoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersno

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