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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. OrigoDB vs. XTDB vs. YottaDB

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Graph DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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	1.92
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

origodb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.nebula-graph.io

origodb.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

FoundationDB

Vesoft Inc.

Robert Friberg et al

Juxt Ltd.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2013

2019

2009

under the name LiveDB

2019

2001

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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 be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula 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.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP REST
JDBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

.Net

Clojure
Java

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

yes

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

Relationships in graphs

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

Write ahead log

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Role based authorization

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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Specific characteristics

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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