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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. GeoMesa

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.gbase.cn

www.geomesa.org

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

FoundationDB

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

CCRi and others

Initial release

2015

2013

2004

2014

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

6.2.28, November 2020

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.0.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C, Java, Python

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

supported in specific SQL layer only

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

depending on storage layer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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