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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. RDFox vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. RDFox vs. SiteWhere

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.oxfordsemantic.techgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.oxfordsemantic.techsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperFoundationDBOxford Semantic TechnologiesSiteWhere
Initial release201320172010
Current release6.2.28, November 20206.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes infoRDF schemaspredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer only
Triggersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesreplication via a shared file systemselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRoles, resources, and access typesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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