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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Qdrant vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Qdrant vs. RDF4J

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Search engineVector DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbmanticoresearch.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
rdf4j.org
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbmanual.manticoresearch.comqdrant.tech/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperFoundationDBManticore SoftwareQdrantSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2013201720212004
Current release6.2.28, November 20206.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++RustJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasFixed schemaschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleanNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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.Can index from XMLno
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryCollection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoKey-based authenticationno

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