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DBMS > Axibase vs. FoundationDB vs. Spark SQL vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. FoundationDB vs. Spark SQL vs. WakandaDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbspark.apache.org/­sqlwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAxibase CorporationFoundationDBApache Software FoundationWakanda SAS
Initial release2013201320142012
Current release155856.2.28, November 20203.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.7.0 (AprilĀ 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ScalaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagesupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Java
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesin SQL-layer onlynoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes

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