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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Hazelcast vs. HBase vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Hazelcast vs. HBase vs. Solr

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.A widely adopted in-memory data gridWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Key-value storeWide column storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbhazelcast.comhbase.apache.orgsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmlsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperFoundationDBHazelcastApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetApache Software Foundation
Initial release2013200820082006
Current release6.2.28, November 20205.3.6, November 20232.3.4, January 20219.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.yes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query languagenoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes infoCoprocessors in JavaJava plugins
Triggersnoyes infoEventsyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)optimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyes

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