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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenTSDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory JavaScript DBMSMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series 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
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessopentsdb.net
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperFoundationDBIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Microsoftcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20132010201419922011
Current release6.2.28, November 20201902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangJavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingnonoyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersnoyesyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.yes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no

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