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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. OrientDB vs. SiteWhere vs. STSdb

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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)M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
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
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
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
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdborientdb.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperFoundationDBOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSiteWhereSTS Soft SC
Initial release2013201020102011
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.2.29, March 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")predefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language, no joinsnono
APIs and other access methodsTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST.NET Client API
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
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyJava, Javascriptno
TriggersnoHooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyes inforelationship in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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