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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Memgraph vs. SiteWhere vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Memgraph vs. SiteWhere vs. SWC-DB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Graph DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series 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
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgalaxybase.commemgraph.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbmemgraph.com/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperFoundationDBChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Memgraph LtdSiteWhereAlex Kashirin
Initial release20132017201720102020
Current release6.2.28, November 2020Nov 20, November 20210.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and JavaC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasStrong typed schemaschema-free and schema-optionalpredefined schemeschema-free
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Go
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined procedures and functionsno
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyes infoRelationships in graphsyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlUsers, roles and permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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