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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. FoundationDB vs. GeoMesa vs. OrigoDB vs. SpatiaLite

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

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

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

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.geomesa.org

origodb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

apple.github.io/foundationdb

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

origodb.com/docs

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

FoundationDB

CCRi and others

Robert Friberg et al

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1997

2013

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

2008

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

6.2.28, November 2020

4.0.5, February 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

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

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

in SQL-layer only

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

depending on storage layer

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

in SQL-layer only

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Role based authorization

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