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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Riak TS vs. TigerGraph vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Riak TS vs. TigerGraph vs. VelocityDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.tigergraph.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.tigergraph.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperFoundationDBOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2013201520172011
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.0.0, September 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingnoyesyes
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 indexesnorestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyes, limitedSQL-like query language (GSQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++
Java
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyErlangyesno
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyno infolinks between datasets can be storedyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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