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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Sadas Engine vs. Spark SQL

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Search engineDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.sadasengine.comspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdblearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperFoundationDBMicrosoftOracleSADAS s.r.l.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20132015201120062014
Current release6.2.28, November 2020V124.1, May 20248.03.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesoptionalyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infooff heap cacheyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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