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DBMS > EXASOL vs. FoundationDB vs. RDF4J vs. StarRocks vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. FoundationDB vs. RDF4J vs. StarRocks vs. SwayDB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
RDF storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.66
Rank#138  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#191  Overall
#32  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.72
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.95
Rank#193  Overall
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.exasol.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbrdf4j.orgwww.starrocks.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesapple.github.io/­foundationdbrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperExasolFoundationDBSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Simer Plaha
Initial release20002013200420202018
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++, JavaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesyesno
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 indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyessupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyesno
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Java
PHP
Python
JavaJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsin SQL-layer onlyyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnonoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno

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