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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SiteWhere vs. SurrealDB

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

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

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
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	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

FoundationDB

SiteWhere

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2010

2022

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

10 R1, October 2018

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

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

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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