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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. GridGain vs. OrigoDB vs. TDengine

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.gbase.cnwww.gridgain.comorigodb.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlorigodb.com/­docsdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperFoundationDBGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GridGain Systems, Inc.Robert Friberg et alTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release2013200420072009 infounder the name LiveDB2019
Current release6.2.28, November 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cGridGain 8.5.13.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonJava, C++, .NetC#C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.yesyesno infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyStandard with numerous extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.NetC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesno
Triggersnoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infoDomain Eventsyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesnodepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsRole based authorizationyes
More information provided by the system vendor
FoundationDBGBaseGridGainOrigoDBTDengine
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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