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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. HarperDB vs. jBASE vs. OrigoDB vs. Solr

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.harperdb.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseorigodb.comsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9origodb.com/­docssolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperFoundationDBHarperDBRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Robert Friberg et alApache Software Foundation
Initial release2013201719912009 infounder the name LiveDB2006
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.1, August 20215.79.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Node.jsC#Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasdynamic schemaschema-freeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyes infoJSON data typesoptionalUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.noyesno infocan be achieved using .NETyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like data manipulation statementsEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yesyesJava plugins
Triggersnonoyesyes infoDomain Eventsyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynonodepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDACIDoptimistic locking
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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRole based authorizationyes

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