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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL vs. Realm vs. Sequoiadb

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 MobileBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Object oriented DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial 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
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbobjectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.orgrealm.iowww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.objectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationrealm.io/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperFoundationDBObjectBox LimitedRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release201320172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20142013
Current release6.2.28, November 202010 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++CC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
proprietary protocol using JSON
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
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynouser defined functionsno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryJavaScript
Triggersnonoyesyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesonline/offline synchronization between client and servernoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCCACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyessimple password-based access control
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