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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. GridGain vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. GridGain vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBCloud-based data warehousing service
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#188  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#190  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#155  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#73  Relational DBMS
Score3.90
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.34
Rank#166  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.gbase.cnwww.gridgain.comhsqldb.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouse
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperFoundationDBGridGain Systems, Inc.IBM
Initial release2013200720012014
Current release6.2.28, November 2020GBase 8aGridGain 8.5.12.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++Java, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modeshosted
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.yesnono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java, SQLPL/SQL, SQL PL
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes (replicated cache)noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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