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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. PostGIS vs. Sphinx

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSSearch engine
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
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpostgis.netsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpostgis.net/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperFoundationDBSpotifySphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20132014201420052001
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.4.2, February 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaScriptCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesnoyesno
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia viewsyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynonoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScriptC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynoView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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