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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Pinecone vs. Splunk vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Pinecone vs. Splunk vs. Trafodion

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A managed, cloud-native vector databaseAnalytics Platform for Big DataTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Vector DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.pinecone.iowww.splunk.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunktrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperFoundationDBPinecone Systems, IncSplunk Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2013201920032014
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingString, Number, Booleanyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
PythonC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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