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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. FoundationDB vs. NebulaGraph

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Graph DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.73
Rank	#213	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.87
Rank	#197	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#29	Key-value stores
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	1.61
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/apple/foundationdb

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

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.nebula-graph.io

Developer

FoundationDB

Vesoft Inc.

Initial release

2016

2013

2019

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

Strong typed schema

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.

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.

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

using RocksDB

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

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More resources

Recent citations in the news

Using BigchainDB: A Database with Blockchain Characteristics
20 January 2022, Open Source For You

Figure 5. The four main components of the BigchainDB network.
12 December 2022, ResearchGate

IPDB Announced as Public, Planetary-Scale Blockchain Database
1 June 2016, PRWeb

Toyota Taps Blockchain Tech for Self-Driving Cars
4 March 2021, CCN.com

IoT data company Weeve welcomes Bruce Pon to advisory board
3 July 2018, CryptoNinjas

provided by Google News

Apple Acquires Durable Database Company FoundationDB
24 March 2015, TechCrunch

FoundationDB Record Layer: A Multi-Tenant Structured Datastore
25 July 2020, Apple Machine Learning Research

Apple-owned FoundationDB open sources the core technology at the heart of iCloud
19 April 2018, AppleInsider

FoundationDB team’s new venture, Antithesis, raises $47M to enhance software testing
13 February 2024, SiliconANGLE

FoundationDB, a very interesting NoSQL database owned by Apple, is now an open-source project
19 April 2018, GeekWire

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NebulaGraph reaps from China’s growing appetite for graph databases
16 September 2022, TechCrunch

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17 July 2024, Analytics India Magazine

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