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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. FoundationDB vs. HugeGraph vs. HyperSQL

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.15
Rank	#300	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.39
Rank	#149	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#283	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#76	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.foundationdb.org

github.com/hugegraph

hsqldb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/55652.htm

apple.github.io/foundationdb

hugegraph.github.io/hugegraph-doc

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Alibaba

FoundationDB

Baidu

Initial release

2013

2018

2001

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

0.9

2.7.0, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Groovy
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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More resources

Recent citations in the news

IBM Cloudant pulls plan to fund new foundational layer for CouchDB
15 March 2022, The Register

FoundationDB, a very interesting NoSQL database owned by Apple, is now an open-source project
19 April 2018, GeekWire

Apple Acquires Durable Database Company FoundationDB
24 March 2015, TechCrunch

Apple's FoundationDB takes new Record Layer open source, confirms tech underpins CloudKit
14 January 2019, AppleInsider

FoundationDB's Record Layer Supports Relational Database Semantics, Schema Management and Indexing
10 February 2019, InfoQ.com

provided by Google News

Open-source DBMS becoming battleground of public cloud
17 May 2022, Etnews

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