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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. OpenTSDB vs. OrigoDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA 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
Relational 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
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseopentsdb.netorigodb.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperFoundationDBIBMcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsRobert Friberg et al
Initial release2013201420112009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release6.2.28, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsUser 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.no infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesnono
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Telnet API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyPL/SQL, SQL PLnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesnodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole based authorization

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