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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graphite vs. OpenTSDB vs. XTDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.97
Rank#191  Overall
#32  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#87  Relational DBMS
Score2.69
Rank#101  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#330  Overall
#45  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbcloud.google.com/­spannergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webopentsdb.netgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperFoundationDBGoogleChris Daviscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20132017200620112019
Current release6.2.28, November 20201.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++PythonJavaClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesNumeric data onlynumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nonolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.noneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nono

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