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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. H2 vs. HBase vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. H2 vs. HBase vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSWide column storeObject oriented DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.h2database.comhbase.apache.orgobjectbox.iowww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.objectbox.iodocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperFoundationDBThomas MuellerApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetObjectBox LimitedOracle
Initial release20132005200820172007
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.2.220, July 20232.3.4, January 202114.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Proprietary native APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
online/offline synchronization between client and serveryes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyesauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication
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