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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. Kdb vs. Solr vs. YDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.High performance Time Series DBMSA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Search engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.gbase.cnkx.comsolr.apache.orggithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbcode.kx.comsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperFoundationDBGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcApache Software FoundationYandex
Initial release201320042000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320062019
Current release6.2.28, November 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.6, May 20189.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonqJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes
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.yesyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (q)Solr Parallel SQL InterfaceSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsuser defined functionsJava pluginsno
Triggersnoyesyes infowith viewsyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesSource-replica replicationyesActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnooptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesrights management via user accountsyesAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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FoundationDBGBaseKdbSolrYDB
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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