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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IRONdb

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.gbase.cngithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.heavy.aidocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperFoundationDBGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.HEAVY.AI, Inc.Circonus LLC.
Initial release2013200420162017
Current release6.2.28, November 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.10, January 2022V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonC++ and CUDAC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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 indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyStandard with numerous extensionsyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsnoyes, in Lua
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoRound robinAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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