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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Newts vs. Prometheus vs. Stardog vs. Yaacomo

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbopennms.github.io/­newtsprometheus.iowww.stardog.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiprometheus.io/­docsdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperFoundationDBOpenNMS GroupStardog-UnionQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20132014201520102009
Current release6.2.28, November 20207.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentscommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaGoJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nono infoImport of XML data possibleno infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnononoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynonoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serveryes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Java.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynonouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersnononoyes infovia event handlersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoby FederationMulti-source replication in HA-ClusterSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynonoyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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