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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Interbase vs. RisingWave vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Interbase vs. RisingWave vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 BorlandA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.97
Rank#191  Overall
#32  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#87  Relational DBMS
Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#237  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperFoundationDBEmbarcaderoRisingWave LabsTranswarp
Initial release201319842022
Current release6.2.28, November 2020InterBase 2020, December 20191.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesStandard SQL-types and JSON
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 possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
OpenCypher
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesInterbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes 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 controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and Rolesyes

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