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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. FoundationDB vs. GridGain vs. HBase vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.gridgain.comhbase.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperSoftmotionsFoundationDBGridGain Systems, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release20122013200720081984
Current release6.2.28, November 2020GridGain 8.5.12.3.4, January 20217.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++Java, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
HP Open VMS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-free, schema definition possibleFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idno infosome layers support typingyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlyANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblein SQL-layer onlynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)yes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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