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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Kingbase

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Kingbase

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.geomesa.orgwww.hawkular.orgwww.kingbase.com.cn
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
DeveloperFoundationDBCCRi and othersCommunity supported by Red HatBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.
Initial release2013201420141999
Current release6.2.28, November 20205.0.0, May 2024V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaJavaC and Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynonoStandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynonouser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layerselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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