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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. ArcadeDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Oracle vs. SQream DB

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

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

Widely used RDBMS

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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

Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#355	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#188	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1234.27
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.73
Rank	#228	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

arcadedb.com

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.oracle.com/database

sqream.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.arcadedb.com

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Altibase

Arcade Data

FoundationDB

Oracle

SQream Technologies

Initial release

1999

2021

2013

1980

2017

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

September 2021

6.2.28, November 2020

23c, September 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

C and C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language, no joins

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

in SQL-layer only

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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