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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. HarperDB vs. Linter vs. SiriDB vs. Tkrzw

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.RDBMS for high security requirementsOpen Source Time Series DBMSA 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
Document storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.harperdb.iolinter.rusiridb.comdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperFoundationDBHarperDBrelex.ruCesbitMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20132017199020172020
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.1, August 20210.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Node.jsC and C++CC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasdynamic schemayesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyes infoJSON data typesyesyes infoNumeric datano
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 indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like data manipulation statementsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsno

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