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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP IQ vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP IQ vs. SpaceTime

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 featuresColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational 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
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdborigodb.comwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdborigodb.com/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperFoundationDBRobert Friberg et alSAP, formerly SybaseMireo
Initial release20132009 infounder the name LiveDB2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB19942020
Current release6.2.28, November 202010 R1, October 201816.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C#CC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyesyes
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 functionalitynono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP 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
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyesuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyes infoDomain Eventsyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedhorizontal partitioningshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationSAP/Sybase Replication ServerReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlydepending on modelyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCCACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based authorizationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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