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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Badger vs. Datomic vs. FoundationDB vs. OrientDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdborientdb.org
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.datomic.comapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperAxibase CorporationDGraph LabsCognitectFoundationDBOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20132017201220132010
Current release155851.0.6735, June 20236.2.28, November 20203.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJava, ClojureC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringnoyesno infosome layers support typingyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonosupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
GoClojure
Java
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoTransaction Functionsin SQL-layer onlyJava, Javascript
TriggersyesnoBy using transaction functionsnoHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoin SQL-layer onlyyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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