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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Valentina Server

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.heavy.aicloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperFoundationDBHEAVY.AI, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Paradigma Software
Initial release2013201620101999
Current release6.2.28, November 20205.10, January 20225.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C++ and CUDAErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesnoyes
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
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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