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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Spatial extension of H2

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	1.07
Rank	#188	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#187	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.geomesa.org

www.h2gis.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

postgis.net

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

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

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

FoundationDB

CCRi and others

CNRS

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2013

2014

2013

1984

2005

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

4.0.5, February 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

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

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

based on H2

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

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

yes

based on H2

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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