DBMS > FoundationDB vs. jBASE vs. OrigoDB vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. jBASE vs. OrigoDB vs. Riak TS

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.

Description

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.03
Rank	#190	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

origodb.com

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

origodb.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

FoundationDB

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Robert Friberg et al

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2013

1991

2009

under the name LiveDB

2015

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

5.7

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

optional

User defined using .NET types and collections

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

depending on model

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role based authorization

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