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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. OpenEdge vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.

Description

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.03
Rank	#190	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.progress.com/openedge

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

FoundationDB

Progress Software Corporation

OpenPie

Initial release

2013

1984

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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