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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OrigoDB vs. searchxml vs. TigerGraph

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Search engine
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
origodb.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.heavy.aiorigodb.com/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperFoundationDBHEAVY.AI, Inc.Robert Friberg et alinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release201320162009 infounder the name LiveDB20152017
Current release6.2.28, November 20205.10, January 20221.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ and CUDAC#C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyes
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 infocan be achieved using .NETyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesnonoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.NetC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynoyesyes infoon the application serveryes
Triggersnonoyes infoDomain Eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinhorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynodepending on modelnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDmultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorizationDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesRole-based access control

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