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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Memgraph vs. SiteWhere vs. Spark SQL vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Memgraph vs. SiteWhere vs. Spark SQL vs. SWC-DB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Graph DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbmemgraph.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherespark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbmemgraph.com/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperFoundationDBMemgraph LtdSiteWhereApache Software FoundationAlex Kashirin
Initial release20132017201020142020
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++JavaScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-free and schema-optionalpredefined schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsBolt protocol
Cypher query language
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding infobased on HBaseyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyes inforelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno
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FoundationDBMemgraphSiteWhereSpark SQLSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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