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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. openGemini vs. Sequoiadb

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.opengemini.org/guide

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

FoundationDB

Huawei and openGemini community

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2022

2013

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

1.1, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

Administrators and common users accounts

simple password-based access control

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