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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PouchDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PouchDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA 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
Relational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlpouchdb.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperFoundationDBOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Apache Software Foundation
Initial release2013198420122009
Current release6.2.28, November 20207.4.1.1, 20217.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
HP Open VMSserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScriptGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono

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