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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Kingbase vs. OrigoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Kingbase vs. OrigoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SpaceTime

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Relational 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
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.kingbase.com.cnorigodb.comwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdborigodb.com/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperFoundationDBBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Robert Friberg et alMireo
Initial release201319992009 infounder the name LiveDB2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2020
Current release6.2.28, November 2020V8.0, August 202110 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and JavaC#CC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyes
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.yesno infocan be achieved using .NETyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes infoDomain Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedhorizontal partitioningFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesSource-replica replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesdepending on modelyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorizationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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