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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. SQL.JS

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.gbase.cnsql.js.org
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAxibase CorporationFoundationDBGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2013201320042012
Current release155856.2.28, November 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C, Java, PythonJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringno 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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagesupported in specific SQL layer onlyStandard with numerous extensionsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlyyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesno

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