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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. JaguarDB vs. mSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. XTDB

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#14	Vector DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.jaguardb.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

FoundationDB

DataJaguar, Inc.

Hughes Technologies

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2015

1994

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2019

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

3.3 July 2023

4.4, October 2021

10 R1, October 2018

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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