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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. FoundationDB vs. Hive vs. SiriDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopOpen Source Time Series DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbhive.apache.orgsiridb.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesapple.github.io/­foundationdbcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.siridb.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperExasolFoundationDBApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookCesbitDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20002013201220172018
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.1.3, April 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesyes infoNumeric datayes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyessupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsin SQL-layer onlyyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer onlynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple rights management via user accountsRole-based access control

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