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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. H2 vs. HugeGraph vs. RethinkDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational 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
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
rethinkdb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperFoundationDBThomas MuellerBaiduThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Alessandro Furieri
Initial release20132005201820092008
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.2.220, July 20230.92.4.1, August 20205.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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 indexesnoyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaGroovy
Java
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
TriggersnoyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparkyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesyes infoedges in graphnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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