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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Graphite vs. LevelDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Graphite vs. LevelDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Tkrzw

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.A 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
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeKey-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
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbgraphite.readthedocs.iogithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperFoundationDBChris DavisGooglePerconaMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20132006201120152020
Current release6.2.28, November 20201.23, February 20213.4.10-2.10, November 20170.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++PythonC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingNumeric data onlynoyesno
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 indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynonoJavaScriptno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
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.yes infovia In-Memory Engineyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess rights for users and rolesno

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