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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TDengine

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Application development environment with integrated database management systemA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.94
Rank#190  Overall
#32  Document stores
#29  Key-value stores
#87  Relational DBMS
Score3.50
Rank#76  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score3.29
Rank#79  Overall
#13  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#43  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#123  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperFoundationDBProgress Software CorporationOracleTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release2013198420112019
Current release6.2.28, November 2020OpenEdge 12.2, March 202024.4, December 20243.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesoptionalyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Typescript (Node.js)
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyesnono
Triggersnoyesnoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)
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 infooff heap cache
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and rolesyes
More information provided by the system vendor
FoundationDBOpenEdgeOracle NoSQLTDengine
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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