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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. jBASE

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Multivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.heavy.aiwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperFoundationDBMicrosoftHEAVY.AI, Inc.IBMRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release20132010201620171991
Current release6.2.28, November 20205.10, January 20222.05.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++.NET and CC++ and CUDAC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
.NETLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyesoptional
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyesnoyesyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationActive-active shard replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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