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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Kdb vs. NebulaGraph vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Riak KV

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.High performance Time Series DBMSA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score2.14
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbkx.comgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
www.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosql
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbcode.kx.comdocs.nebula-graph.iodocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperFoundationDBKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcVesoft Inc.OracleOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20132000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003201920112009
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.6, May 201823.3, December 20233.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++qC++JavaErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesStrong typed schemaSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesoptionalno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes 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.yesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language (q)SQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
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 APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnoErlang
Triggersnoyes infowith viewsnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationCausal Clustering using Raft protocolElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnowith Hadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)no
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.yesyesyes infooff heap cache
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes, using Riak Security
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FoundationDBKdbNebulaGraphOracle NoSQLRiak KV
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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NebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Social networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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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 modelsupon request
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NebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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