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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Riak KV vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Riak KV vs. Solr

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 databaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdborigodb.comsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdborigodb.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperFoundationDBRobert Friberg et alOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesApache Software Foundation
Initial release20132009 infounder the name LiveDB20092006
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.2.0, December 20229.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C#ErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingUser defined using .NET types and collectionsnoyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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 .NETnoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesrestrictedyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynonoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.NetC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyesErlangJava plugins
Triggersnoyes infoDomain Eventsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlydepending on modelno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 authorizationyes, using Riak Securityyes

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