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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. H2 vs. SAP IQ vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. H2 vs. SAP IQ vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQream DB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsSpatial extension of SQLitea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.h2database.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexsqream.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperFoundationDBThomas MuellerSAP, formerly SybaseAlessandro FurieriSQream Technologies
Initial release20132005199420082017
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.2.220, July 202316.1 SPS04, April 20195.0.0, August 20202022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-lessLinux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexernonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseSAP/Sybase Replication Servernonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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