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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. GeoMesa vs. InfluxDB vs. OpenQM vs. SAP HANA

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.geomesa.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

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

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

FoundationDB

CCRi and others

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

SAP

Initial release

2013

2014

2013

1993

2010

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

5.0.0, May 2024

2.7.6, April 2024

3.4-12

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

in enterprise version only

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

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

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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