DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Firebird vs. Graphite vs. RocksDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Firebird vs. Graphite vs. RocksDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

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

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

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

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

rocksdb.org

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

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

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

graphite.readthedocs.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Firebird Foundation

Chris Davis

Facebook, Inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2016

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2006

2013

2019

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
Sockets

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

yes

locking

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

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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