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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Immudb vs. MaxDB

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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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/apple/foundationdb

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.immudb.io

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Esgyn

FoundationDB

Codenotary

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2015

2013

2020

1984

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

1.2.3, April 2022

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

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

SQL-like syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

in SQL-layer only

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Source-replica replication

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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