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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Galaxybase vs. OrigoDB vs. SurrealDB

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Graph DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Graph 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	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

galaxybase.com

origodb.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

origodb.com/docs

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

FoundationDB

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

Robert Friberg et al

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2013

2017

2009

under the name LiveDB

2022

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

Nov 20, November 2021

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Go
Java
Python

.Net

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

user defined procedures and functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

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

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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