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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. OrigoDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. SWC-DB

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

origodb.com

www.openpie.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

origodb.com/docs

Developer

FoundationDB

Robert Friberg et al

OpenPie

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2013

2009

under the name LiveDB

2020

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

2.1, January 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

Sharding

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

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role based authorization

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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