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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Geode vs. NSDb vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Geode vs. NSDb vs. OrientDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgeode.apache.orgnsdb.ioorientdb.org
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbgeode.apache.org/­docsnsdb.io/­Architecturewww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperFoundationDBOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release2013200220172010
Current release6.2.28, November 20201.1, February 20173.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaJava, ScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
macOS
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like query languageSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsnoJava, Javascript
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event ListenersHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynonoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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