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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. NSDb vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. NSDb vs. TDengine

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 KubernetesTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.92
Rank#196  Overall
#33  Document stores
#29  Key-value stores
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#392  Overall
#44  Time Series DBMS
Score2.11
Rank#115  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbnsdb.iogithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperFoundationDBTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release201320172019
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ScalaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query languageStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynono
Triggersnoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes
More information provided by the system vendor
FoundationDBNSDbTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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13 February 2024, SiliconANGLE News

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19 April 2018, Snowflake

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24 March 2015, TechCrunch

Apple Acquires FoundationDB
24 March 2015, blogs.wsj.com

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