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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. TDengine

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.In-memory JavaScript DBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Time Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.97
Rank#191  Overall
#32  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#301  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.48
Rank#107  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmanticoresearch.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperFoundationDBManticore SoftwareTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release2013201420172019
Current release6.2.28, November 20206.0, February 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingnoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.noCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoSQL-like query languageStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesnoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoyes
More information provided by the system vendor
FoundationDBLokiJSManticore SearchTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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