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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. MaxDB vs. OrigoDB vs. VelocityDB

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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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

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

Graph DBMS
Object oriented 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	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

maxdb.sap.com

origodb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

origodb.com/docs

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

FoundationDB

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Robert Friberg et al

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2013

1984

2009

under the name LiveDB

2011

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

7.9.10.12, February 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

Based on Windows Authentication

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