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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. ITTIA vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. ITTIA vs. OpenTSDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score0.39
Rank#273  Overall
#24  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.gbase.cnwww.ittia.comopentsdb.net
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperFoundationDBGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.ITTIA L.L.C.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2013200420072011
Current release6.2.28, November 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c8.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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 indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyStandard with numerous extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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 controlnoyesDatabase file passwordsno

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