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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. FoundationDB vs. OpenEdge vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. FoundationDB vs. OpenEdge vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Application development environment with integrated database management systemDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Graph DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.searchxml.net/­category/­productstinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFoundationDBProgress Software Corporationinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20142013198420152009
Current release6.2.28, November 2020OpenEdge 12.2, March 20201.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenono infosome layers support typingyesyesyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.supported in specific SQL layer onlyyes infoclose to SQL 92nono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyyesyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer onlyyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers and groupsDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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