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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. EJDB vs. FoundationDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 visualizationEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdapple.github.io/­foundationdbterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAxibase CorporationSoftmotionsFoundationDBDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2013201220132018
Current release155856.2.28, November 202011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idno 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.nono
Secondary indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenosupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared libraryOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoin SQL-layer onlyyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblein SQL-layer onlyyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole-based access control

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