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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. PostGIS vs. SQream DB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Microsoft 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.)Spatial extension of PostgreSQLa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA 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 DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesspostgis.netsqream.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesspostgis.net/­documentationdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperFoundationDBMicrosoftSQream TechnologiesTranswarp
Initial release2013199220052017
Current release6.2.28, November 20201902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.4.2, February 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++CC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.yes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
OpenCypher
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineuser defined functionsuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLhorizontal and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infobased on PostgreSQLyes

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