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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. OrientDB vs. Qdrant vs. Stardog vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. OrientDB vs. Qdrant vs. Stardog vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.50
Rank#166  Overall
#29  Document stores
#27  Key-value stores
#76  Relational DBMS
Score3.38
Rank#96  Overall
#17  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#15  Key-value stores
Score1.25
Rank#176  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score2.03
Rank#136  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score1.59
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdborientdb.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.stardog.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlqdrant.tech/­documentationdocs.stardog.comdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperFoundationDBOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPQdrantStardog-UnionVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20132010202120102018
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.2.29, March 20247.3.0, May 2020v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaRustJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language, no joinsnoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serverno
APIs and other access methodsTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyJava, Javascriptuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javano
TriggersnoHooksyes infovia event handlersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationCollection-level replicationMulti-source replication in HA-ClusterSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyes inforelationship in graphsyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableKey-based authenticationAccess rights for users and roles

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