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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Galaxybase vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Galaxybase vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformCloud-based data warehousing service
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.96
Rank#189  Overall
#32  Document stores
#29  Key-value stores
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#394  Overall
#42  Graph DBMS
Score1.17
Rank#167  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgalaxybase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouse
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdb
DeveloperFoundationDBChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司IBM
Initial release201320172014
Current release6.2.28, November 2020Nov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C and Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasStrong typed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyes
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Go
Java
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined procedures and functionsPL/SQL, SQL PL
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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