DBMS > Datastax Enterprise vs. FoundationDB vs. GraphDB vs. NCache vs. TDengine
System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. FoundationDB vs. GraphDB vs. NCache vs. TDengine
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| Name | Datastax Enterprise Xexclude from comparison | FoundationDB Xexclude from comparison | GraphDB  former name: OWLIM Xexclude from comparison | NCache Xexclude from comparison | TDengine 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| Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description | DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform. | Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers. | Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL. | Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store | Time Series DBMS and big data platform | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary database model | Wide column store | Document store supported via specific layer Key-value store Relational DBMS supported via specific SQL-layer | Graph DBMS RDF store | Key-value store | Time Series DBMS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Secondary database models | Document store Graph DBMS Spatial DBMS Search engine Vector DBMS | Document store Search engine Using distributed Lucene | Relational DBMS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Website | www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise | github.com/apple/foundationdb | www.ontotext.com | www.alachisoft.com/ncache | github.com/taosdata/TDengine tdengine.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Technical documentation | docs.datastax.com | apple.github.io/foundationdb | graphdb.ontotext.com/documentation | www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs | docs.tdengine.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Developer | DataStax | FoundationDB | Ontotext | Alachisoft | TDEngine, previously Taos Data | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Initial release | 2011 | 2013 | 2000 | 2005 | 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current release | 6.8, April 2020 | 6.2.28, November 2020 | 10.4, October 2023 | 5.3.3, April 2024 | 3.0, August 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| License Commercial or Open Source | commercial | Open Source Apache 2.0 | commercial Some plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourced | Open Source Enterprise Edition available | Open Source AGPL V3, also commercial editions available | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service | no | no | no | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Implementation language | Java | C++ | Java | C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java | C | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Server operating systems | Linux OS X | Linux OS X Windows | All OS with a Java VM Linux OS X Windows | Linux Windows | Linux Windows | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data scheme | schema-free | schema-free some layers support schemas | schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapes | schema-free | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Typing predefined data types such as float or date | yes | no some layers support typing | yes | partial Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter | 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. | no | no | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Secondary indexes | yes | no | yes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexes | yes | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SQL Support of SQL | SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL | supported in specific SQL layer only | stored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBC | SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency. | Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| APIs and other access methods | Proprietary protocol CQL (Cassandra Query Language) TinkerPop Gremlin with DSE Graph | GeoSPARQL GraphQL GraphQL Federation Java API JDBC RDF4J API RDFS RIO Sail API Sesame REST HTTP Protocol SPARQL 1.1 | IDistributedCache JCache LINQ Proprietary native API | JDBC RESTful HTTP API | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Supported programming languages | C C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby | .Net C C++ Go Java JavaScript Node.jsPHP Python Ruby Swift | .Net C# Clojure Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby Scala | .Net .Net Core C# Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python Scala | C C# C++ Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Rust | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Server-side scripts Stored procedures | no | in SQL-layer only | well-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibility | no support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Triggers | yes | no | no | yes Notifications | yes, via alarm monitoring | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes | Sharding no "single point of failure" | Sharding | none | yes | Sharding | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes | configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing | yes | Multi-source replication | yes, with selectable consistency level | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods | yes | no | no | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system | Immediate Consistency Tunable Consistency consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation | Linearizable consistency | Immediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request) | Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Foreign keys Referential integrity | no | in SQL-layer only | yes Constraint checking | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data | no Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations | ACID | ACID | optimistic locking and pessimistic locking | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Durability Support for making data persistent | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only. | yes | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| User concepts Access control | Access rights for users can be defined per object | no | Default Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on. | Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator) | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Datastax Enterprise | FoundationDB | GraphDB former name: OWLIM | NCache | TDengine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Specific characteristics | DataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to... » more | Ontotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build... » more | NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache... » more | TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Competitive advantages | Supporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache... » more | GraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment... » more | NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,... » more | High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Typical application scenarios | Applications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able... » more | Metadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing... » more | NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare... » more | TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Key customers | Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and... » more | GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph... » more | Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,... » more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Market metrics | Among the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top... » more | GraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise... » more | Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005. » more | TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Licensing and pricing models | Annual subscription » more | GraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition... » more | NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise... » more | TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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