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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Geode vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.

Description

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

geode.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

FoundationDB

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

STS Soft SC

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2002

2014

2011

2018

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

1.1, February 2017

4.0.8, September 2015

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role-based access control

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