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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. FoundationDB vs. H2 vs. RDFox vs. SpatiaLite

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelEvent StoreDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational 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
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.h2database.comwww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedFoundationDBThomas MuellerOxford Semantic TechnologiesAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20122013200520172008
Current release21.2, February 20216.2.28, November 20202.2.220, July 20236.0, Septermber 20225.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasereplication via a shared file systemnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRoles, resources, and access typesno

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