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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. FoundationDB vs. SQream DB vs. Titan vs. Yaacomo

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orggithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbsqream.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titanyaacomo.com
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docsapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.sqream.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperFoundationDBSQream TechnologiesAurelius, owned by DataStaxQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20182013201720122009
Current release1.0.0, June 20246.2.28, November 20202022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaJava
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyessupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functions in Pythonyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioningyes infovia pluggable storage backendshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlynoyes infoRelationships in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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