DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. OpenTenBase

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. OpenTenBase

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Name

Description

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.firebirdsql.org

www.gbase.cn

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

Developer

Alibaba

Firebird Foundation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2004

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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