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System Properties Comparison atoti vs. FoundationDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere vs. STSdb

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

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

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

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

atoti.io

github.com/apple/foundationdb

rethinkdb.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

apple.github.io/foundationdb

rethinkdb.com/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

ActiveViam

FoundationDB

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SiteWhere

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2013

2009

2010

2011

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

2.4.1, August 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

supported in specific SQL layer only

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

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

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

in SQL-layer only

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

range based

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC based

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

users and table-level permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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