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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OrigoDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OrigoDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseBased 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 DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument 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
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.gbase.cnazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsorigodb.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsorigodb.com/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperFoundationDBGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.MicrosoftRobert Friberg et al
Initial release2013200420162009 infounder the name LiveDB2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release6.2.28, November 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c10 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonC++C#C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.yesnono infocan be achieved using .NETyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyStandard with numerous extensionsyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
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
C#C#
Java
PHP
.Net.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsTransact SQLyesuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsdepending on modelyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesyesRole based authorizationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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