DBMS > FoundationDB vs. jBASE vs. NebulaGraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. jBASE vs. NebulaGraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. WakandaDB

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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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

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

www.postgres-xl.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.nebula-graph.io

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

FoundationDB

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Vesoft Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2013

1991

2019

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2012

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

5.7

10 R1, October 2018

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

optional

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

none

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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Licensing and pricing models

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