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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. OrigoDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented 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
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessorigodb.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperFoundationDBIBMEmbarcaderoMicrosoftRobert Friberg et al
Initial release20132017198419922009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.0InterBase 2020, December 20191902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++CC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collections
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Triggersnonoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesActive-active shard replicationInterbase Change ViewsnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynoyesyesdepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Role based authorization

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