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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. SurrealDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. SurrealDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applicationsMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document store
Graph DBMS
Graph DBMSMultivalue 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
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#371  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbsurrealdb.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardbwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbsurrealdb.com/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperFoundationDBSurrealDB LtdTranswarpRocket Software
Initial release201320221985
Current release6.2.28, November 2020v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++RustC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesoptional
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
OpenCypherJava API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyes
Triggersnoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesyesAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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