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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

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Score	0.21
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Score	0.89
Rank	#197	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#29	Key-value stores
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

github.com/apple/foundationdb

Technical documentation

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

apple.github.io/foundationdb

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

FoundationDB

Initial release

2018

2013

Current release

2.3, January 2021

6.2.28, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

some layers support schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

supported in specific SQL layer only

APIs and other access methods

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

in SQL-layer only

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Linearizable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

in SQL-layer only

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 rights for users and roles

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