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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. H2 vs. OpenEdge vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. H2 vs. OpenEdge vs. TDengine

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Application development environment with integrated database management systemTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.97
Rank#191  Overall
#32  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#87  Relational DBMS
Score7.57
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score3.69
Rank#78  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#107  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.h2database.comwww.progress.com/­openedgegithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperFoundationDBThomas MuellerProgress Software CorporationTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release2013200519842019
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.2.220, July 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesyes infoclose to SQL 92Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesno
Triggersnoyesyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groupsyes
More information provided by the system vendor
FoundationDBH2OpenEdgeTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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