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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. FoundationDB vs. NSDb

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NamechDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionAn embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouseOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.07
Rank#376  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­chdb-io/­chdbgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbnsdb.io
Technical documentationdoc.chdb.ioapple.github.io/­foundationdbnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperFoundationDB
Initial release202320132017
Current release6.2.28, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.no
Secondary indexesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)supported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesBun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyno
Triggersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes
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 onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Lucene
User concepts infoAccess controlno

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