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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. HarperDB vs. MaxDB vs. OrigoDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.harperdb.iomaxdb.sap.comorigodb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.harperdb.io/­docsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationorigodb.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperFoundationDBHarperDBSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Robert Friberg et alAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2013201719842009 infounder the name LiveDB2008
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.1, August 20217.9.10.12, February 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen SourceOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Node.jsC++C#C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasdynamic schemayesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyes infoJSON data typesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.nonono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like data manipulation statementsyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
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
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yesyesno
Triggersnonoyesyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynoyesdepending on modelyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorizationno

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