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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SiriDB vs. Tkrzw

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Description

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Open Source Time Series DBMS

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

galaxybase.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

siridb.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.siridb.com

Developer

FoundationDB

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Microsoft

Cesbit

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2013

2017

2016

2017

2020

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

Nov 20, November 2021

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

Numeric data

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Go
Java
Python

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

user defined procedures and functions

Transact SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

Relationships in graphs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

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