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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. OrigoDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. OrigoDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Oracles in-memory data grid solutionA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Key-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherenceorigodb.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherenceorigodb.com/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperFoundationDBOracleRobert Friberg et al
Initial release201320072009 infounder the name LiveDB2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release6.2.28, November 202014.1, August 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC#C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.nono infocan be achieved using .NETyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynonoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
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
.Net
C++
Java
.Net.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynoyesuser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infoLive Eventsyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynodepending on modelyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDconfigurableACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infooptionallyyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationRole based authorizationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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