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

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

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

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.97
Rank	#191	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.95
Rank	#193	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.starrocks.io

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

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

FoundationDB

SiteWhere

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2013

2010

2020

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

3.3, June 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

predefined scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Java

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Sharding

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

Transaction concepts

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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