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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.

Description

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

en.gstore.cn

machbase.com

rockset.com

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

machbase.com/dbms

docs.rockset.com

Developer

FoundationDB

Machbase

Rockset

Initial release

2013

2016

2013

2019

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

1.2, November 2023

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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