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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Ignite vs. OpenEdge vs. Postgres-XL

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.03
Rank	#190	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

cloud.google.com/bigquery

ignite.apache.org

www.progress.com/openedge

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

FoundationDB

Google

Apache Software Foundation

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2013

2010

2015

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

Apache Ignite 2.6

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

MVCC

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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