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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. HBase vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. HBase vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. SiteWhere

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 BigTableA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Wide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series 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
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.46
Rank#266  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbhbase.apache.orgkyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprisegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperFoundationDBApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetKyligence, Inc.SiteWhere
Initial release2013200820162010
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-free, schema definition possibleyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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 indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)no
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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