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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Manticore Search vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.

Description

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
RDF store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.97
Rank	#191	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

manticoresearch.com

terminusdb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

manual.manticoresearch.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

FoundationDB

Manticore Software

DataChemist Ltd.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2013

2017

2018

1987

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

6.0, February 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

XML support

Some 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 XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Journaling Streams

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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