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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. H2 vs. Hive vs. Qdrant vs. Valentina Server

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational 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
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.h2database.comhive.apache.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeqdrant.tech/­documentationvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperFoundationDBThomas MuellerApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookQdrantParadigma Software
Initial release20132005201220211999
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.2.220, July 20233.1.3, April 20225.7.5
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 Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factorCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesKey-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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