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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. HBase vs. PlanetScale vs. Quasardb vs. YugabyteDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 BigTableScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Wide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
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
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbhbase.apache.orgplanetscale.comquasar.aiwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlplanetscale.com/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperFoundationDBApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetPlanetScalequasardbYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20132008202020092017
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.3.4, January 20213.14.1, January 20242.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaGoC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Docker
Linux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 indexesnonoyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languageyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP APIJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes infoproprietary syntaxnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factorBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID at shard levelACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes
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FoundationDBHBasePlanetScaleQuasardbYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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