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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Geode vs. jBASE vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Geode vs. jBASE vs. RDFox

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Key-value storeMultivalue DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Websitewww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgeode.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperEsgynFoundationDBOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Oxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20152013200219912017
Current release6.2.28, November 20201.1, February 20175.76.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesoptionalyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyessupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language (OQL)Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyesMulti-source replicationyesreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRoles, resources, and access types

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