DBMS > Datomic vs. FoundationDB vs. HugeGraph vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. FoundationDB vs. HugeGraph vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#190	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

github.com/apple/foundationdb

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

apple.github.io/foundationdb

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Cognitect

FoundationDB

Baidu

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2013

2018

2013

1992

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

6.2.28, November 2020

0.9

9.2.1, May 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

in SQL-layer only

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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