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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. LMDB vs. OpenEdge vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. LMDB vs. OpenEdge vs. TigerGraph

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Key-value storeRelational DBMSGraph 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
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.lmdb.tech/­docdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperFoundationDBSymasProgress Software Corporation
Initial release2013201119842017
Current release6.2.28, November 20200.9.32, January 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynoyesyes
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers and groupsRole-based access control

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