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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Memgraph

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Memgraph

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Key-value storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Graph DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgeode.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtablememgraph.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbgeode.apache.org/­docscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsmemgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperEsgynFoundationDBOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.GoogleMemgraph Ltd
Initial release20152013200220152017
Current release6.2.28, November 20201.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyessupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language (OQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyesMulti-source replicationInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer onlynonoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeAtomic single-row operationsACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users, roles and permissions
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