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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. HBase vs. Interbase vs. JaguarDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 BigTableLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Wide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument 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
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbhbase.apache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.jaguardb.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperFoundationDBApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetEmbarcaderoDataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release20132008198420152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.3.4, January 2021InterBase 2020, December 20193.3 July 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes
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.nono infoexport as XML data possiblenoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenouser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Interbase Change ViewsMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDnoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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