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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. RisingWave vs. SiteWhere vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. RisingWave vs. SiteWhere vs. SWC-DB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.97
Rank#191  Overall
#32  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#237  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.risingwave.com/­databasegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intrositewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperFoundationDBRisingWave LabsSiteWhereAlex Kashirin
Initial release2013202220102020
Current release6.2.28, November 20201.2, September 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++RustJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyespredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingStandard SQL-types and JSONyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyUDFs in Python or Javano
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers and RolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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