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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. jBASE vs. NuoDB

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. jBASE vs. NuoDB

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelEvent StoreDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.gbase.cnwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9doc.nuodb.com
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedFoundationDBGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20122013200419912013
Current release21.2, February 20216.2.28, November 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno 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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyStandard with numerous extensionsEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsyesJava, SQL
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyesyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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