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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
Search engine
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
Score0.60
Rank#238  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score18.98
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#361  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsterminusdb.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbkairosdb.github.iodocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperFoundationDBMicrosoftDataChemist Ltd.Transwarp
Initial release2013201320162018
Current release6.2.28, November 20201.2.2, November 201811.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C#
Java
PHP
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynoTransact SQLyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding, horizontal partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlyesRole-based access control

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