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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Interbase vs. Linter vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandRDBMS for high security requirementsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaselinter.ruterminusdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperFoundationDBEmbarcaderorelex.ruDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20131984199020182011
Current release6.2.28, November 2020InterBase 2020, December 201911.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC and C++Prolog, RustC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NET
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.no infoexport as XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLyesno
TriggersnoyesyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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