DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. FoundationDB vs. Geode vs. MonetDB vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FoundationDB vs. Geode vs. MonetDB vs. Solr

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#190	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/apple/foundationdb

geode.apache.org

www.monetdb.org

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

apple.github.io/foundationdb

geode.apache.org/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

FoundationDB

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

MonetDB BV

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2013

2002

2004

2006

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

1.1, February 2017

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

restricted

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

supported in specific SQL layer only

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

in SQL-layer only

user defined functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

optimistic locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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