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DBMS > FeatureBase vs. FoundationDB vs. Hypertable vs. Interbase vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. FoundationDB vs. Hypertable vs. Interbase vs. XTDB

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NameFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Wide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.featurebase.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.featurebase.comapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsFoundationDBHypertable Inc.EmbarcaderoJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20172013200919842019
Current release2022, May 20226.2.28, November 20200.9.8.11, March 2016InterBase 2020, December 20191.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C++CClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingnoyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnonorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL queriessupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesselectable replication factor on file system levelInterbase Change Viewsyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer onlynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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