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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. Typesense

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 databaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity
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 storeSearch engine
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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#210  Overall
#14  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdborigodb.comwww.postgres-xl.orgpouchdb.comtypesense.org
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdborigodb.com/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guidestypesense.org/­docs
DeveloperFoundationDBRobert Friberg et alApache Software Foundation
Initial release20132009 infounder the name LiveDB2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20122015
Current release6.2.28, November 202010 R1, October 20187.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C#CJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesschema-freeschema-free infopre-defined schema optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesnoyes
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 .NETyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnono
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyesuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyes infoDomain Eventsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedhorizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlydepending on modelyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCCnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based authorizationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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