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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Interbase vs. PieCloudDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#285  Overall
#129  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#304  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.postgresql.fastware.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.openpie.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperFoundationDBPostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologyEmbarcaderoOpenPie
Initial release201319842014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release6.2.28, November 2020Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022InterBase 2020, December 20192.1, January 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++CCC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyesyes
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.no infoexport as XML data possibleyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesyesyesyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingpartitioning by range, list and by hashnoneyeshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationInterbase Change Viewsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
FoundationDBFujitsu Enterprise PostgresInterbasePieCloudDBPostgres-XL
Specific characteristics100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesBuilt-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosTransactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Market metricsOver 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCore based licensing
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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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