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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. KairosDB vs. LevelDB vs. SurrealDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A multi-model DBMS and application serverDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­google/­leveldbsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.intersystems.comkairosdb.github.iogithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperFoundationDBInterSystemsGoogleSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20131997201320112022
Current release6.2.28, November 20202018.1.4, May 20201.2.2, November 20181.23, February 2021v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasdepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesnoyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
C++
Java
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyesnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple password-based access controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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