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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. H2GIS vs. SAP HANA vs. Solr vs. SQream DB

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.03
Rank	#190	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.h2gis.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

solr.apache.org

sqream.com

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

help.sap.com/hana

solr.apache.org/resources.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

FoundationDB

CNRS

SAP

Apache Software Foundation

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2013

2010

2006

2017

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

9.6.0, April 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Java

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

yes

based on H2

SQLScript, R

Java plugins

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

optimistic locking

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

yes

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