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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RDF4J vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RDF4J vs. Rockset

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSWide column storeRDF storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#188  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#86  Relational DBMS
Score4.92
Rank#73  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.71
Rank#231  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesrdf4j.orgrockset.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperFoundationDBCirconus LLC.MicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Rockset
Initial release20132017201220042019
Current release6.2.28, November 2020V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageC++C and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesdynamic typing
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnononoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyes, in Luanoyesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic lockingACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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