FoundationDB vs TiKV
FoundationDB
foundationdb.org
TiKV
tikv.orgSide by side
| Figure | FoundationDB | TiKV |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | 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 (#18) |
| Maker | The site identifies Apple Inc. as the copyright holder and says FoundationDB is an Apple trademark. | The project page says TiKV was originally created by PingCAP; it does not state a headquarters or founding year for the maker. |
| Security | FoundationDB supports TLS for communication security and authentication, but cluster connections are unencrypted by default. | TiKV documentation describes TLS for network connections and configurable encryption at rest, including AES methods. |
| What it does | FoundationDB is a distributed database that organizes structured data as an ordered key-value store. | TiKV is a distributed transactional key-value database designed to serve as a unified distributed storage layer. |
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In their own words
FoundationDB
FoundationDB has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
TiKV
TiKV is a distributed transactional key-value database designed as a unified storage layer across nodes. It provides a raw key-value API and a transactional key-value API with ACID semantics, but those APIs cannot both be used on the same keyspace. The project says it can support petabyte-scale deployments spanning trillions of rows. Raft groups replicate data across nodes for fault tolerance, while horizontal scaling and rebalancing support changes in cluster capacity. RawKV also includes time-to-live expiration and compare-and-swap operations. The documentation lists Java, Go, Rust, Python, and C++ clients; Java and Go are marked stable, while the others are marked unstable. TiKV is self-hosted and Apache 2.0 licensed, with Linux, macOS, Windows, and API listed as platforms. Its documentation describes TLS for network connections and configurable encryption at rest, including AES methods. TiKV was originally created by PingCAP and is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation graduate project. The community page recommends Slack for general communication and provides a dedicated mailing list for security vulnerability reports.