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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. IRONdb vs. TerminusDB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. IRONdb vs. TerminusDB vs. WakandaDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 simplicityScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMSObject oriented 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
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/terminusdb.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#wakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperFoundationDBCirconus LLC.DataChemist Ltd.Wakanda SAS
Initial release2013201720182012
Current release6.2.28, November 2020V0.10.20, January 201811.0.0, January 20232.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++Prolog, RustC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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
Secondary indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
RESTful HTTP API
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
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyes, in Luayesyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareJournaling Streamsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole-based access controlyes

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