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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. HyperSQL vs. JaguarDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. HyperSQL vs. JaguarDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.97
Rank#191  Overall
#32  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#304  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score3.14
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
#16  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.postgresql.fastware.comhsqldb.orgwww.jaguardb.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlwww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperFoundationDBPostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologyDataJaguar, Inc.Transwarp
Initial release201320012015
Current release6.2.28, November 2020Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 20222.7.2, June 20233.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OpenCypher
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
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsJava, SQLno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingpartitioning by range, list and by hashnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsyes

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