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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. OpenTenBase vs. VoltDB

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

FoundationDB

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2013

2010

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

2.5, January 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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