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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. H2GIS vs. OpenTenBase vs. Oracle Rdb

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Spatial extension of H2

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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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	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.h2gis.org

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

FoundationDB

CNRS

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2013

1984

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

2.5, January 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Java

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

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

yes, on a single node

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 according to SQL-standard

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