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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Geode vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Geode vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesCloud-based data warehousing serviceKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Key-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgeode.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4terminusdb.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbgeode.apache.org/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperFoundationDBOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.IBMSTS Soft SCDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20132002201420112018
Current release6.2.28, November 20201.1, February 20174.0.8, September 201511.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC#Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedWindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language (OQL)yesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsPL/SQL, SQL PLnoyes
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationyesnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodeACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access control

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