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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. NSDb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. NSDb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbnsdb.iowww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.postgres-xl.orgvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperFoundationDBPerconaVictoriaMetrics
Initial release2013201720152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2018
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.4.10-2.10, November 201710 R1, October 2018v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ScalaC++CGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
LinuxLinux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query languagenoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
proprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Java
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynoJavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovia In-Memory Enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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