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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. H2 vs. ReductStore

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.

Description

Ordered 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.

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.92
Rank	#196	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#29	Key-value stores
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	7.02
Rank	#50	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#371	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.h2database.com

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.reduct.store/docs

Developer

FoundationDB

Thomas Mueller

ReductStore LLC

Initial release

2013

2005

2023

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

2.2.220, July 2023

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Java

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Recent citations in the news

FoundationDB team’s new venture, Antithesis, raises $47M to enhance software testing
13 February 2024, SiliconANGLE News

How FoundationDB Powers Snowflake Metadata Forward
19 April 2018, Snowflake

Apple Acquires Durable Database Company FoundationDB
24 March 2015, TechCrunch

Apple Acquires FoundationDB
24 March 2015, blogs.wsj.com

A Cautionary Open Source Tale, Apple Buys And Shutters FoundationDB
25 March 2015, Forbes

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