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

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

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 engineA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPM2M 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
Relational DBMSTime 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
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.graphengine.iowww.openpie.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperFoundationDBMicrosoftOpenPieSiteWhere
Initial release201320102010
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.1, January 2023
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 servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++.NET and CJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
.NEThostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyespredefined scheme
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyesuser defined functions
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningyesSharding 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 methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL StandardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
More information provided by the system vendor
FoundationDBGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityPieCloudDBSiteWhere
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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