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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. OpenQM vs. Splice Machine vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. OpenQM vs. Splice Machine vs. Yaacomo

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines 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.QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational 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
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.gbase.cnwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmsplicemachine.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperFoundationDBGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Rocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsSplice MachineQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20132004199320142009
Current release6.2.28, November 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.4-123.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes infowith some exceptionsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyStandard with numerous extensionsnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsyesyes infoJava
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningyesShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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