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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. FoundationDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Quasardb

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

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

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

github.com/apple/foundationdb

cloud.google.com/bigquery

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

apple.github.io/foundationdb

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Franz Inc.

FoundationDB

Google

quasardb

Initial release

2004

2013

2010

2009

Current release

8.0, December 2023

6.2.28, November 2020

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

yes

integer and binary

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.

bulk load of XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

in SQL-layer only

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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