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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. RDFox vs. Riak TS vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.

Description

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

FoundationDB

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2013

2017

2015

2020

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

6.0, Septermber 2022

3.0.0, September 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes, limited

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C
Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

replication via a shared file system

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Roles, resources, and access types

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