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System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. FoundationDB vs. H2 vs. Quasardb vs. SpatiaLite

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NameCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentOrdered 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.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.11
Rank#118  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.coveo.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.h2database.comquasar.aiwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.coveo.comapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperCoveoFoundationDBThomas MuellerquasardbAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20122013200520092008
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.2.220, July 20233.14.1, January 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnono
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer onlyyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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