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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. HBase vs. InfluxDB vs. OpenTenBase vs. Quasardb

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTenBase  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsAn enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Wide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#370  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbhbase.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­OpenTenBase/­OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org
quasar.ai
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/­en
doc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperFoundationDBApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencentquasardb
Initial release2013200820132009
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.3.4, January 20212.7.6, April 20242.5, January 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoBSD-3commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingoptions to bring your own types, AVRONumeric data and Stringsyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnononoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
Go
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACsimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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