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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. GridGain

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.89
Rank#197  Overall
#32  Document stores
#29  Key-value stores
#92  Relational DBMS
Score1.33
Rank#154  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#70  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.gridgain.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.html
DeveloperFoundationDBGridGain Systems, Inc.
Initial release20132007
Current release6.2.28, November 2020GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial, open source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
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Implementation languageC++Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyes
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.yes
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

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Apple Acquires Durable Database Company FoundationDB
24 March 2015, TechCrunch

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13 February 2024, SiliconANGLE

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15 March 2022, theregister.com

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19 April 2018, GeekWire

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