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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. H2 vs. Hypertable vs. Interbase vs. Postgres-XL

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines 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.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial 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
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.h2database.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperFoundationDBThomas MuellerHypertable Inc.Embarcadero
Initial release20132005200919842014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.2.220, July 20230.9.8.11, March 2016InterBase 2020, December 201910 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++CC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesnoyesyes
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 infoexport as XML data possibleyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesnoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
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 factor on file system levelInterbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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