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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. OrigoDB vs. PouchDB vs. Quasardb

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 databaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.97
Rank#191  Overall
#32  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#54  Document stores
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdborigodb.compouchdb.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdborigodb.com/­docspouchdb.com/­guidesdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperFoundationDBRobert Friberg et alApache Software Foundationquasardb
Initial release20132009 infounder the name LiveDB20122009
Current release6.2.28, November 20207.1.1, June 20193.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C#JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingUser defined using .NET types and collectionsnoyes infointeger and binary
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 .NETnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.NetJavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyesView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyes infoDomain Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoconsistent hashing
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
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyeswith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlydepending on modelnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based authorizationnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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