DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Faircom DB vs. Firebird vs. Machbase Neo vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Faircom DB vs. Firebird vs. Machbase Neo vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.62
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#311	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	21.06
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#324	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.firebirdsql.org

machbase.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

machbase.com/dbms

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

FairCom Corporation

Firebird Foundation

Machbase

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

1979

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2013

Current release

V12, November 2020

5.0.0, January 2024

V8.0, August 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

yes

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

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

simple password-based access control

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