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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. GeoMesa vs. IRONdb vs. Postgres-XL vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. GeoMesa vs. IRONdb vs. Postgres-XL vs. Qdrant

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines 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.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.97
Rank#191  Overall
#32  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#145  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.geomesa.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
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Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperFoundationDBCCRi and othersCirconus LLC.Qdrant
Initial release2013201420172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2021
Current release6.2.28, November 20205.0.1, July 2024V0.10.20, January 201810 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaC and C++CRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynoyes, in Luauser defined functions
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layerconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.depending on storage layernonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authentication

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