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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Graphite vs. Interbase vs. Kyligence Enterprise

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Graphite vs. Interbase vs. Kyligence Enterprise

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational 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
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#266  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasekyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprise
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperFoundationDBChris DavisEmbarcaderoKyligence, Inc.
Initial release2013200619842016
Current release6.2.28, November 2020InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++PythonCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingNumeric data onlyyesyes
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 possibleno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyesANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneInterbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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