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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. GeoMesa vs. H2

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.

Description

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.92
Rank	#196	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#29	Key-value stores
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#215	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	7.02
Rank	#50	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.geomesa.org

www.h2database.com

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

FoundationDB

CCRi and others

Thomas Mueller

Initial release

2013

2014

2005

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

5.0.1, July 2024

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Recent citations in the news

FoundationDB team’s new venture, Antithesis, raises $47M to enhance software testing
13 February 2024, SiliconANGLE News

Apple Acquires Durable Database Company FoundationDB
24 March 2015, TechCrunch

Apple Acquires FoundationDB
24 March 2015, blogs.wsj.com

A Cautionary Open Source Tale, Apple Buys And Shutters FoundationDB
25 March 2015, Forbes

IBM Cloudant pulls plan to fund new foundational layer for CouchDB
15 March 2022, The Register

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