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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Interbase vs. StarRocks vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Interbase vs. StarRocks vs. Trafodion

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.97
Rank#191  Overall
#32  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#87  Relational DBMS
Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.95
Rank#193  Overall
#89  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.starrocks.iotrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperFoundationDBEmbarcaderoThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2013198420202014
Current release6.2.28, November 2020InterBase 2020, December 20193.3, June 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++, JavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesInterbase Change Viewsyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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