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

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#188	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	3.90
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.34
Rank	#166	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.gbase.cn

hsqldb.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

FoundationDB

IBM

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2013

2001

2014

2011

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

GBase 8a

2.7.2, June 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

Java, SQL

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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