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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

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

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sqlite.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

help.sap.com/hana

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

FoundationDB

SAP

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2013

2010

2000

2020

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

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