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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Firebird vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Transwarp KunDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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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.

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

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#341	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

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

www.firebirdsql.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

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

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Alibaba

Firebird Foundation

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Transwarp

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1984

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

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

yes, on a single node

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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