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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. HyperSQL vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. HyperSQL vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.gbase.cnhsqldb.orgterminusdb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperFoundationDBGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.DataChemist Ltd.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20132004200120181987
Current release6.2.28, November 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.7.2, June 202311.0.0, January 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonJavaProlog, RustC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyStandard with numerous extensionsyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsJava, SQLyesyes
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnoneJournaling StreamsSource-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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
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-standardRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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