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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. FoundationDB vs. Ignite vs. InfinityDB vs. Solr

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbignite.apache.orgboilerbay.comsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsapple.github.io/­foundationdbapacheignite.readme.io/­docsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperEnterpriseDBFoundationDBApache Software FoundationBoiler Bay Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20052013201520022006
Current release14, December 20216.2.28, November 2020Apache Ignite 2.64.09.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++, Java, .NetJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionssupported in specific SQL layer onlyANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.in SQL-layer onlyyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noJava plugins
Triggersyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyes (replicated cache)noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer onlynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoyes

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