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

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.

Description

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.97
Rank	#191	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

en.gstore.cn

boilerbay.com

origodb.com

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

origodb.com/docs

Developer

FoundationDB

Boiler Bay Inc.

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2013

2016

2002

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

1.2, November 2023

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

User defined using .NET types and collections

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

depending on model

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Role based authorization

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