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DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. FoundationDB vs. H2 vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. FoundationDB vs. H2 vs. SQL.JS

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.31
Rank	#159	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#191	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.h2database.com

Technical documentation

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

FoundationDB

Thomas Mueller

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2018

2013

2005

2012

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

6.2.28, November 2020

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

no

some layers support typing

yes

yes

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.

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

no

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in SQL-layer only

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

no

Triggers

yes

no

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

Sharding

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

yes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

in SQL-layer only

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

ACID

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

no

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

no

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