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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Graph Engine vs. ITTIA vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Graph Engine vs. ITTIA vs. SiteWhere

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.44
Rank#267  Overall
#23  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.graphengine.iowww.ittia.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperFoundationDBMicrosoftITTIA L.L.C.SiteWhere
Initial release2013201020072010
Current release6.2.28, November 20208.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++.NET and CC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
.NETLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesFixed schemapredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyesyes
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDatabase file passwordsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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