DBMS > EsgynDB vs. FoundationDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. jBASE vs. MariaDB

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. FoundationDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. jBASE vs. MariaDB

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

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

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#190	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.intersystems.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

Developer

Esgyn

FoundationDB

InterSystems

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Initial release

2015

2013

1997

1991

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

2018.1.4, May 2020

5.7

11.3.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

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 C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C#
C++
Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

in SQL-layer only

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
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

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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