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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. GridDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SiriDB vs. Tibero

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareOpen Source Time Series DBMSA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial 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
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgriddb.netgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
siridb.comus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.griddb.netdocs.heavy.aidocs.siridb.comtechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperFoundationDBToshiba CorporationHEAVY.AI, Inc.CesbitTmaxSoft
Initial release20132013201620172003
Current release6.2.28, November 20205.1, August 20225.10, January 20226, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++ and CUDACC and Assembler
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyes infoNumeric datayes
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 indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynononoPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoRound robinShardinghorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID at container levelnonoACID
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.yesyesyesno infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)
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FoundationDBGridDBHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022SiriDBTibero
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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