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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. Newts vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. Newts vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQream DB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.gbase.cnopennms.github.io/­newtswww.postgres-xl.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperFoundationDBGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.OpenNMS GroupSQream Technologies
Initial release2013200420142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2017
Current release6.2.28, November 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c10 R1, October 20182022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonJavaCC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.yesnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsnouser defined functionsuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioninghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID infoMVCCACID
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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