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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Interbase vs. Netezza vs. Postgres-XL

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsBased 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
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.graphengine.iowww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperFoundationDBMicrosoftEmbarcaderoIBM
Initial release20132010198420002014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release6.2.28, November 2020InterBase 2020, December 201910 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++.NET and CCC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
.NETAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoincluded in applianceLinux
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.nono infoexport as XML data possibleyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyesyesyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
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++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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