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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Graphite vs. Interbase vs. jBASE

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue 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
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperFoundationDBChris DavisEmbarcaderoRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release2013200619841991
Current release6.2.28, November 2020InterBase 2020, December 20195.7
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++PythonC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingNumeric data onlyyesoptional
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
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based 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
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneInterbase Change Viewsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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