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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. mSQL vs. SQream DB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. mSQL vs. SQream DB vs. Yaacomo

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServermSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlsqream.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperFoundationDBMicrosoftHughes TechnologiesSQream TechnologiesQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20132010199420172009
Current release6.2.28, November 2020V124.4, October 20212022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++CC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
LinuxAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyTransact SQLnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, with always 3 replicas availablenonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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