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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Newts vs. RDF4J vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Newts vs. RDF4J vs. SQream DB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeTime Series DBMSRDF storeRelational 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
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoreopennms.github.io/­newtsrdf4j.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoregithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikirdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperFoundationDBGoogleOpenNMS GroupSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SQream Technologies
Initial release20132017201420042017
Current release6.2.28, November 20202022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynononoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Java API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
JavaJava
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnoyesuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.nono

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