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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Blueflood vs. Firebird vs. KairosDB

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Name

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

blueflood.io

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Alibaba

Rackspace

Firebird Foundation

Initial release

2016

2013

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2013

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

simple password-based access control

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