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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. HugeGraph vs. LevelDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. HugeGraph vs. LevelDB vs. RDF4J

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 DBMSEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Graph DBMSKey-value storeRDF 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
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
github.com/­google/­leveldbrdf4j.org
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbhugegraph.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperFoundationDBBaiduGoogleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2013201820112004
Current release6.2.28, November 20200.91.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesnoyes
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 indexesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynonono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Groovy
Java
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissionsnono

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