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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. OceanBase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Speedb

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
Document 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
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdben.oceanbase.comwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.speedb.io
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdben.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperFoundationDBOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupSpeedb
Initial release201320102014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2020
Current release6.2.28, November 20204.3.0, April 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommercial license availableOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++CC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesno
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.yesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication using Paxosyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCCyes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
FoundationDBOceanBasePostgres-XLSpeedb
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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