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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. GeoMesa vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.

Description

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.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

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Trend Chart

Score	1.03
Rank	#190	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.gbase.cn

www.geomesa.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

FoundationDB

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

CCRi and others

Rocket Software

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2013

2004

2014

1985

2012

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

4.0.5, February 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, Python

Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

optional

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

yes

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