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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. H2GIS vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Splunk

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 H2A relational database management system that stores data in columnsAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial 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
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.h2gis.orgwww.monetdb.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperFoundationDBCNRSMonetDB BVOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Splunk Inc.
Initial release20132013200419842003
Current release6.2.28, November 2020Dec2023 (11.49), December 20237.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP Open VMSLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyes infobased on H2yes, in SQL, C, Ryes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on H2none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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