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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Fauna vs. FoundationDB vs. HugeGraph vs. STSdb

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptiondBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Graph DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.dbase.comfauna.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.fauna.comapple.github.io/­foundationdbhugegraph.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperAsthon TateFauna, Inc.FoundationDBBaiduSTS Soft SC
Initial release19792014201320182011
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20196.2.28, November 20200.94.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaC++JavaC#
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnono infosome layers support typingyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesyesyesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonosupported in specific SQL layer onlynono
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsin SQL-layer onlyasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesin SQL-layer onlyyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnoUsers, roles and permissionsno

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