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

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

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSScalable 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
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
Search engine
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
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticssurrealdb.comterminusdb.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticssurrealdb.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperFoundationDBMicrosoftSurrealDB LtdDataChemist Ltd.Transwarp
Initial release2013201620222018
Current release6.2.28, November 2020v1.5.0, May 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++RustProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
Java
PHP
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyTransact SQLyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyno 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 dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access control

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