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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. TinkerGraph

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesCloud-based data warehousing serviceA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#188  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#86  Relational DBMS
Score62.59
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score1.34
Rank#166  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbhive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousetinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperFoundationDBApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBMIBM
Initial release20132012201720142009
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.1.3, April 20222.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionhosted
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesPL/SQL, SQL PLno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorActive-active shard replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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