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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Cubrid vs. Faircom DB vs. FoundationDB vs. TerminusDB

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

github.com/apple/foundationdb

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

apple.github.io/foundationdb

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Alibaba

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

FairCom Corporation

FoundationDB

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2008

1979

2013

2018

Current release

11.0, January 2021

V12, November 2020

6.2.28, November 2020

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

ANSI C, C++

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

supported in specific SQL layer only

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

in SQL-layer only

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Linearizable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Role-based access control

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