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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Ingres vs. Netezza vs. SpaceTime

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Well established RDBMS

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.actian.com/ingres

Developer

FoundationDB

Actian Corporation

IBM

Mireo

Initial release

2013

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2000

2020

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Ingres Replicator

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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