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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticstempoiq.com (offline)terminusdb.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperFoundationDBMicrosoftTempoIQDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2013201620122018
Current release6.2.28, November 202011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
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Implementation languageC++C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIOWL
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
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyTransact SQLnoyes
Triggersnonoyes infoRealtime Alertsyes
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-constraintsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyessimple authentication-based access controlRole-based access control

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