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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. InfluxDB vs. ITTIA vs. OpenQM vs. RocksDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational 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
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#267  Overall
#23  Time Series DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.ittia.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmrocksdb.org
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperFoundationDBITTIA L.L.C.Rocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20132013200719932013
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.7.6, April 20248.73.4-129.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++GoC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeFixed schemayes infowith some exceptionsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingNumeric data and StringsFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query languageyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynoyesyesno
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyyeshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountsDatabase file passwordsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno
More information provided by the system vendor
FoundationDBInfluxDBITTIAOpenQM infoalso called QMRocksDB
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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