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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenQM vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenQM vs. OpenTSDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Object oriented DBMSMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series 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
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbobjectbox.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmopentsdb.net
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.objectbox.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperFoundationDBObjectBox LimitedRocket Software, originally Martin Phillipscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2013201719932011
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes infowith some exceptionsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynonono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIHTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynoyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyesSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno
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FoundationDBObjectBoxOpenQM infoalso called QMOpenTSDB
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