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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. H2GIS vs. InterSystems Caché vs. PostGIS

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

Spatial extension of H2

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.97
Rank	#191	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.h2gis.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

postgis.net

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.intersystems.com

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

FoundationDB

CNRS

InterSystems

Initial release

2013

1997

2005

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

2018.1.4, May 2020

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

depending on used data model

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Java

C#
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

yes

based on H2

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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)

yes

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

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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