DBMS > EsgynDB vs. FoundationDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenTenBase vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. FoundationDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenTenBase 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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

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

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/apple/foundationdb

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

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

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.heavy.ai

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

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

Developer

Esgyn

FoundationDB

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2015

2013

2016

2008

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

5.10, January 2022

2.5, January 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

in SQL-layer only

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

in SQL-layer only

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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