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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. InfinityDB vs. OrigoDB vs. PlanetScale

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. InfinityDB vs. OrigoDB vs. PlanetScale

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Key-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#19  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbboilerbay.comorigodb.complanetscale.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualorigodb.com/­docsplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperFoundationDBBoiler Bay Inc.Robert Friberg et alPlanetScale
Initial release201320022009 infounder the name LiveDB2020
Current release6.2.28, November 20204.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC++JavaC#Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynonoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Java.NetAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynoyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnonoyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitydepending on modelyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole based authorizationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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