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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. HyperSQL vs. InfinityDB vs. ITTIA

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.

Description

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.03
Rank	#190	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.39
Rank	#273	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

hsqldb.org

boilerbay.com

www.ittia.com

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

FoundationDB

Boiler Bay Inc.

ITTIA L.L.C.

Initial release

2013

2001

2002

2007

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

2.7.2, June 2023

4.0

8.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Java

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Database file passwords

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