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DBMS > Axibase vs. FoundationDB vs. Geode vs. RDFox vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. FoundationDB vs. Geode vs. RDFox vs. TerarkDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 visualizationOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Key-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgeode.apache.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.techgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.oxfordsemantic.techbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAxibase CorporationFoundationDBOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Oxford Semantic TechnologiesByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20132013200220172016
Current release155856.2.28, November 20201.1, February 20176.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringno infosome layers support typingyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagesupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language (OQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
Java
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replicationreplication via a shared file systemnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes, on a single nodeACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights per client and object definableRoles, resources, and access typesno

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