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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Interbase vs. Postgres-XL vs. STSdb

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbhugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperFoundationDBBaiduEmbarcaderoSTS Soft SC
Initial release2013201819842014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2011
Current release6.2.28, November 20200.9InterBase 2020, December 201910 R1, October 20184.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCCC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 infoexport as XML data possibleyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseInterbase Change Viewsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyes infoedges in graphyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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