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

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSpatial extension of SQLiteDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational 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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.harperdb.ioorigodb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.harperdb.io/­docsorigodb.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmldocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperFoundationDBHarperDBRobert Friberg et alAlessandro FurieriVoltDB Inc.
Initial release201320172009 infounder the name LiveDB20082010
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.1, August 20215.0.0, August 202011.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree community edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Node.jsC#C++Java, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
server-lessLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasdynamic schemayesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyes infoJSON data typesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyes
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.nono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like data manipulation statementsnoyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Java API
JDBC
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
.NetC#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yesnoJava
Triggersnonoyes infoDomain Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterhorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynodepending on modelyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByes infoWrite ahead logyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesRole based authorizationnoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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