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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. OrigoDB vs. PlanetScale vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. OrigoDB vs. PlanetScale vs. SurrealDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdborigodb.complanetscale.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdborigodb.com/­docsplanetscale.com/­docssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperFoundationDBRobert Friberg et alPlanetScaleSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20132009 infounder the name LiveDB20202022
Current release6.2.28, November 2020v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C#GoRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyes
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.no infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.NetAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlydepending on modelyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based authorizationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes, based on authentication and database rules

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