FoundationDB vs RonDB
FoundationDB
foundationdb.org
RonDB
rondb.comSide by side
| Figure | FoundationDB | RonDB |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · Key-Value Databases | 7.8 (#10) | 7.5 (#17) |
| Transactions | It provides global ACID transactions with strict serializability using optimistic concurrency. | RonDB is ACID compliant through MySQL-server support, with in-memory data persisted using REDO logs and checkpoints. |
| What it does | FoundationDB is a distributed database that organizes structured data as an ordered key-value store. | RonDB is a distributed, shared-nothing storage engine and an open-source fork of MySQL NDB Cluster for real-time applications. |
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In their own words
FoundationDB
FoundationDB has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
RonDB
RonDB is an open-source distributed storage engine for real-time applications and a fork of MySQL NDB Cluster. Its shared-nothing design supports up to 1 PiB of storage, with online horizontal and vertical scaling for storage and MySQL-server compute. Applications can use the MySQL Server API for SQL-compatible access and parallel queries. ACID transactions are provided through MySQL-server support; in-memory data is persisted using REDO logs and checkpoints.
RonDB describes its performance aims as low latency, high availability, high throughput, and scalable storage. It supports AI application storage integrated with Spark and Kafka, while Rondis implements a Redis server using RonDB storage and the Redis wire protocol. Deployment options include local testing, Docker, cloud deployments using your own AWS, Azure, or GCP credentials, and on-premises deployment by inquiry. Replication can be synchronous active-active across availability zones or asynchronous across regions with conflict resolution. RonDB is used as the online feature-store database for machine-learning applications in Hopsworks. The serverless plan through Hopsworks is free, with quotas on Feature Groups and memory usage.