DBMS > Derby vs. FoundationDB vs. H2 vs. Hazelcast vs. MariaDB

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. FoundationDB vs. H2 vs. Hazelcast vs. MariaDB

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.30
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#188	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	6.87
Rank	#55	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	93.81
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.h2database.com

hazelcast.com

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

Technical documentation

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

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

FoundationDB

Thomas Mueller

Hazelcast

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Initial release

1997

2013

2005

2008

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

6.2.28, November 2020

2.2.220, July 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

11.3.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

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++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Java

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

in SQL-layer only

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

in SQL-layer only

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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