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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. GeoMesa vs. openGemini

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. GeoMesa vs. openGemini

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.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.An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#361  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.gbase.cnwww.geomesa.orgwww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.opengemini.org/­guide
DeveloperFoundationDBGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.CCRi and othersHuawei and openGemini community
Initial release2013200420142022
Current release6.2.28, November 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.0.0, May 20241.1, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonScalaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesInteger, Float, Boolean, String
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyStandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningdepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesdepending on storage layeryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.depending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAdministrators and common users accounts

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