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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. STSdb vs. TypeDB vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. STSdb vs. TypeDB vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Warp 10

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query languageMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilitiesTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Key-value storeGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Multivalue DBMSTime Series 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
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#344  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4typedb.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidatawww.warp10.io
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbtypedb.com/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidatawww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperFoundationDBSTS Soft SCVaticleRocket SoftwareSenX
Initial release20132011201619852015
Current release6.2.28, November 20204.0.8, September 20152.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C#JavaCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesoptionalyes
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 indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynonoyesno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client APIgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
Java
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynonoyesyes infoWarpScript
Triggersnononoyes infoU2 Basicno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoby using CassandranoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneMulti-source replication infoby using CassandraSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeepernono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynono infosubstituted by the relationship featurenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infoconfigurableno
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progressAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system basedMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations
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Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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