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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Kinetica vs. Linter vs. OrigoDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsRDBMS for high security requirementsA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational 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
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.kinetica.comlinter.ruorigodb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.kinetica.comorigodb.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperFoundationDBKineticarelex.ruRobert Friberg et alAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2013201219902009 infounder the name LiveDB2008
Current release6.2.28, November 20207.1, August 20215.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++C and C++C#C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.nonono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLyesno
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesyesdepending on modelyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorizationno

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