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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. InfluxDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. Prometheus vs. TerarkDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.23
Rank#116  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
prometheus.iogithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.nebula-graph.ioprometheus.io/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperFoundationDBVesoft Inc.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20132013201920152016
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++GoC++GoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeStrong typed schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingNumeric data and StringsyesNumeric data onlyno
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 infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnonoyes infoNebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.nono
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query languageSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis infoORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyCausal Clustering using Raft protocolyes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountsRole-based access controlnono
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Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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NebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Social networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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At our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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NebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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