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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Kdb vs. LevelDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Teradata

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.High performance Time Series DBMSEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbkx.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.sequoiadb.comwww.teradata.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbcode.kx.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.teradata.com
DeveloperFoundationDBKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcGoogleSequoiadb Ltd.Teradata
Initial release20132000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003201120131984
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.6, May 20181.23, February 2021Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++qC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhosted
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesnoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'noyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language (q)noSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
proprietary protocol using JSON.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsnoJavaScriptyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersnoyes infowith viewsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneShardingSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsnosimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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FoundationDBKdbLevelDBSequoiadbTeradata
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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