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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Snowflake vs. Trino vs. Warp 10

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	5.28
Rank	#61	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#351	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.snowflake.com

trino.io

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

FoundationDB

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Trino Software Foundation

SenX

Initial release

2013

2014

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

2015

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

user defined functions

yes, depending on connected data-source

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on connected data-source

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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, user roles and pluggable authentication

SQL standard access control

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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