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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. PostGIS vs. Teradata vs. TinkerGraph

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series 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
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbopentsdb.netpostgis.netwww.teradata.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.teradata.com
DeveloperFoundationDBcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsTeradata
Initial release20132011200519842009
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.4.2, February 2024Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
hosted
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyesyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyesyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Telnet API
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynouser defined functionsyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBaseyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoHashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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