DBMS > FoundationDB vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere vs. STSdb

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

rocksdb.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

FoundationDB

Facebook, Inc.

SiteWhere

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2013

2010

2011

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

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

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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