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DBMS > Apache Doris vs. BigchainDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. BigchainDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Postgres-XL

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NameApache Doris  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocolBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.57
Rank#244  Overall
#113  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitedoris.apache.org
github.com/­apache/­doris
www.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.hawkular.orgwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­apache/­doris/­wikibigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from BaiduFoundationDBCommunity supported by Red Hat
Initial release20172016201320142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release1.2.2, February 20236.2.28, November 202010 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnono infosome layers support typingyesyes
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnosupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL client
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsin SQL-layer onlynouser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factoryesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoin SQL-layer onlynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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