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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. FoundationDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlpostgis.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.heavy.aiwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAltibaseFoundationDBHEAVY.AI, Inc.Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release19992013201619842005
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20236.2.28, November 20205.10, January 20227.4.1.1, 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++ and CUDAC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxHP Open VMS
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92supported in specific SQL layer onlyyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsin SQL-layer onlynouser defined functions
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoRound robinyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer onlynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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