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DBMS > BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. FoundationDB vs. RDFox vs. RisingWave

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. FoundationDB vs. RDFox vs. RisingWave

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.ioblueflood.iogithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.oxfordsemantic.techdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.RackspaceFoundationDBOxford Semantic TechnologiesRisingWave Labs
Initial release20152013201320172022
Current release6.2.28, November 20206.0, Septermber 20221.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Rust
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyespredefined schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infosome layers support typingyesStandard SQL-types and JSON
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 indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnosupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoin SQL-layer onlyUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Linearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoRoles, resources, and access typesUsers and Roles

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