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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. HugeGraph vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. HugeGraph vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#285  Overall
#129  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.postgresql.fastware.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
hsqldb.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualshugegraph.apache.org/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperFoundationDBPostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologyBaiduIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2013201820012010
Current release6.2.28, November 2020Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 20220.92.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++CJavaJavaErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modeshosted
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Groovy
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobsJava, SQLView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingpartitioning by range, list and by hashyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparknoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesyes infoedges in graphyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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FoundationDBFujitsu Enterprise PostgresHugeGraphHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBIBM Cloudant
Specific characteristics100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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Competitive advantagesBuilt-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Typical application scenariosTransactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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Market metricsOver 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCore based licensing
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