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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenEdge vs. OrigoDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 DBMSA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented 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
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.progress.com/­openedgeorigodb.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperFoundationDBMicrosoftProgress Software CorporationRobert Friberg et al
Initial release20132014201219842009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release6.2.28, November 2020OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingnoyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.nonoyesno infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynonoyes infoclose to SQL 92no
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScript.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyView functions in JavaScriptnoyesyes
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4horizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynonoyesdepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleoptimistic lockingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesUsers and groupsRole based authorization

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