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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Graphite vs. Ignite vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TerminusDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webignite.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlterminusdb.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbgraphite.readthedocs.ioapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperFoundationDBChris DavisApache Software FoundationOracleDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20132006201520112018
Current release6.2.28, November 2020Apache Ignite 2.624.1, May 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++PythonC++, Java, .NetJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingNumeric data onlyyesoptionalyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes
Triggersnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes (replicated cache)Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)with Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infooff heap cache
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access control

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