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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. eXtremeDB vs. Firebird

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisoneXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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.Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#223  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
#18  Time Series DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.mcobject.comwww.firebirdsql.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmwww.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htmwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manuals
DeveloperAlibabaMcObjectFirebird Foundation
Initial release20012000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase
Current release8.2, 20215.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yesno infosupport of XML interfaces available
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infowith the option: eXtremeSQLyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesPSQL
Triggersyesyes infoby defining eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning / shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceActive Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLeXtremeDBFirebird
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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eXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantagesTPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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eXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenariosIoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customersSchneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metricsWith hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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For server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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