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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. JanusGraph vs. SpaceTime vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. JanusGraph vs. SpaceTime vs. TerarkDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.gbase.cnjanusgraph.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetimegithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.janusgraph.orgbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperFoundationDBGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusMireoByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20132004201720202016
Current release6.2.28, November 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c0.6.3, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyStandard with numerous extensionsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#Clojure
Java
Python
C#
C++
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsyesnono
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Fixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serveryesno

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