DBMS > FoundationDB vs. jBASE vs. Postgres-XL vs. RethinkDB vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. jBASE vs. Postgres-XL vs. RethinkDB vs. SQL.JS

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

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

www.postgres-xl.org

rethinkdb.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

FoundationDB

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2013

1991

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2009

2012

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

5.7

10 R1, October 2018

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

optional

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

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