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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Hazelcast vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Tkrzw

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.A widely adopted in-memory data gridA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Key-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbhazelcast.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.cls
DeveloperEsgynFoundationDBHazelcastInterSystemsMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20152013200820182020
Current release6.2.28, November 20205.3.6, November 20232023.3, June 20230.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
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 VMAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesyesno
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyessupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyesno
Triggersnonoyes infoEventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyesyes infoReplicated MapSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer onlynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access controlyesno
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Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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