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

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 middlewareAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented 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
Score0.09
Rank#361  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.harperdb.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
origodb.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.opengemini.org/­guideorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperFoundationDBHarperDBRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Huawei and openGemini communityRobert Friberg et al
Initial release20132017199120222009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.1, August 20215.71.1, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Node.jsGoC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasdynamic schemaschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyes infoJSON data typesoptionalInteger, Float, Boolean, StringUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.noyesnono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like data manipulation statementsEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP REST.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
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yesnoyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyesyesSource-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 onlynononodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
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 levelAdministrators and common users accountsRole based authorization

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