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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Ingres vs. jBASE vs. OrigoDB vs. PouchDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Well established RDBMSA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document store
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
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#19  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseorigodb.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9origodb.com/­docspouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperFoundationDBActian CorporationRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Robert Friberg et alApache Software Foundation
Initial release20131974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s19912009 infounder the name LiveDB2012
Current release6.2.28, November 202011.2, May 20225.77.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC#JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesoptionalUser defined using .NET types and collectionsno
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesno infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnono
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.NetJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyesyesyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyesyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesIngres ReplicatoryesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesnodepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRole based authorizationno

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