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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Trino

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 CouchDBFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.94
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#29  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#101  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score5.35
Rank#61  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudanttrino.io
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
DeveloperFoundationDBIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Trino Software Foundation
Initial release201320102012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release6.2.28, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingnoyes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesdepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingdepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
depending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibledepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseSQL standard access control
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