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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. H2 vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. YottaDB vs. YugabyteDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Widely used in-process key-value storeA fast and solid embedded Key-value storeHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infousing the Octo pluginDocument store
Wide column store
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
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.h2database.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlyottadb.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlyottadb.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperFoundationDBThomas MuellerOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleYottaDB, LLCYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20132005199420012017
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.2.220, July 202318.1.40, May 20202.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)CC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Docker
Linux
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesnonoyes
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.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableby using the Octo pluginyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Java.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnoyesyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
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 replicationyesBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDoptimistic lockingDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanismsyes
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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