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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SiteWhere vs. Spark SQL

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational 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
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherespark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperFoundationDBOracleSiteWhereApache Software Foundation
Initial release2013201120102014
Current release6.2.28, November 202024.1, May 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.predefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingoptionalyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBaseyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)nono
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.yes infooff heap cachenono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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