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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenQM vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenQM vs. Yaacomo

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines 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.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series 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
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.gbase.cngeospock.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmyaacomo.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdb
DeveloperFoundationDBGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GeoSpockRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release2013200419932009
Current release6.2.28, November 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.0, September 20193.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonJava, Javascript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyStandard with numerous extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningAutomatic shardingyeshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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