DBMS > BigchainDB vs. FoundationDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. FoundationDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. SWC-DB

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

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

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#188	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	2.12
Rank	#125	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#387	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/apple/foundationdb

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.nebula-graph.io

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

FoundationDB

Vesoft Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2016

2013

2019

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2020

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

10 R1, October 2018

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

using RocksDB

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

yes

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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