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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. H2GIS vs. Lovefield vs. PouchDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. H2GIS vs. Lovefield vs. PouchDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Spatial extension of H2Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.h2gis.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefieldpouchdb.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperFoundationDBCNRSGoogleApache Software Foundation
Initial release20132013201420122009
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.1.12, February 20177.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaScriptJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safariserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaJavaScriptJavaScriptGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyes infobased on H2noView functions in JavaScriptno
TriggersnoyesUsing read-only observersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on H2noneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDByesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on H2nonono

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