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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. LevelDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Tkrzw vs. XTDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Key-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
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
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­google/­leveldborigodb.comdbmx.net/­tkrzwgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdorigodb.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperFoundationDBGoogleRobert Friberg et alMikio HirabayashiJuxt Ltd.
Initial release201320112009 infounder the name LiveDB20202019
Current release6.2.28, November 20201.23, February 20210.9.3, August 20201.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C#C++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingnoUser defined using .NET types and collectionsnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 infocan be achieved using .NETnono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynononolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.NetC++
Java
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynoyesnono
Triggersnonoyes infoDomain Eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynodepending on modelnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole based authorizationno

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