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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. PostGIS

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 DBMSEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.Spatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score2.03
Rank#122  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-serverpostgis.net
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlwww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATESTpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperFoundationDBOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Percona
Initial release20132014198420082005
Current release6.2.28, November 20207.4.1.1, 20218.0.36-28, 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC and C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)HP Open VMSLinux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingnoyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyView functions in JavaScriptyesuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
yes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleyes, on a single nodeACIDACID
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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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