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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Lovefield vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	FoundationDB  Xexclude from comparison	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison	OrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  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	Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript	A fully ACID in-memory object graph database	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Document store supported via specific layer Key-value store Relational DBMS supported via specific SQL-layer	Relational DBMS	Document store Object oriented DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.06 Rank #185   Overall #31   Document stores #28   Key-value stores #85   Relational DBMS	Score 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS	Score 0.06 Rank #380   Overall #50   Document stores #18   Object oriented DBMS
Website	github.com/­apple/­foundationdb	google.github.io/­lovefield	origodb.com	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	apple.github.io/­foundationdb	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md	origodb.com/­docs
Developer	FoundationDB	Google	Robert Friberg et al	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2013	2014	2009 under the name LiveDB	1993
Current release	6.2.28, November 2020	2.1.12, February 2017
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache 2.0	Open Source Apache 2.0	Open Source	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C++	JavaScript	C#
Server operating systems	Linux OS X Windows	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari	Linux Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema-free some layers support schemas	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no some layers support typing	yes	User defined using .NET types and collections	yes
XML support Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.		no	no can be achieved using .NET	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	supported in specific SQL layer only	SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern	no	yes
APIs and other access methods			.NET Client API HTTP API LINQ	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	.Net C C++ Go Java JavaScript Node.js PHP Python Ruby Swift	JavaScript	.Net	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	in SQL-layer only	no	yes	yes
Triggers	no	Using read-only observers	yes Domain Events	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	none	horizontal partitioning client side managed; servers are not synchronized	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	none	Source-replica replication	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Linearizable consistency			Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	in SQL-layer only	yes	depending on model	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database	yes Write ahead log	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		yes using MemoryDB	yes	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	no	no	Role based authorization	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Recent citations in the news	FoundationDB team's new venture, Antithesis, raises $47M to enhance software testing 13 February 2024, SiliconANGLE News Stonebraker Seeks to Invert the Computing Paradigm with DBOS 12 March 2024, Datanami Antithesis raises $47M to launch an automated testing platform for software 13 February 2024, TechCrunch FoundationDB, a very interesting NoSQL database owned by Apple, is now an open-source project 19 April 2018, GeekWire Apple Open Sources FoundationDB 19 April 2018, MacRumors provided by Google News			SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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