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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS vs. Vitess

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSpatial extension of PostgreSQLScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
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
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticspostgis.netvitess.io
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticspostgis.net/­documentationvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperFoundationDBMicrosoftThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2013201620052013
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.4.2, February 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++CGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
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.noyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
Java
PHP
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyTransact SQLuser defined functionsyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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