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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. HugeGraph vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. HugeGraph vs. Teradata Aster

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines 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.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational 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
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.gbase.cngithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbhugegraph.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperFoundationDBGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.BaiduTeradata
Initial release2013200420182005
Current release6.2.28, November 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c0.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#Groovy
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobsR packages
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparkyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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