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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series 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	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.graphengine.io

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

machbase.com

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

FoundationDB

Microsoft

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Machbase

Initial release

2013

2010

1991

2013

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

5.7

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free test version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

.NET and C

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

.NET

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

simple password-based access control

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