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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. JaguarDB vs. YottaDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#14  Vector DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.jaguardb.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperFoundationDBDataJaguar, Inc.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release201320152001
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesno
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
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyno
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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