DBMS > Axibase vs. FoundationDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. FoundationDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SpatiaLite

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.intersystems.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

FoundationDB

InterSystems

Microsoft

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2013

1997

1989

2008

Current release

15585

6.2.28, November 2020

2018.1.4, May 2020

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C#
C++
Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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