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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. mSQL vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 CouchDBmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational 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
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudanthughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperFoundationDBIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Hughes TechnologiesOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release2013201019941984
Current release6.2.28, November 20204.4, October 20217.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ErlangC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
HP Open VMS
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingnoyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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