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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Firebird vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Firebird vs. Quasardb

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.firebirdsql.orgquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAlibabaFirebird Foundationquasardb
Initial release20162000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2009
Current release5.0.0, January 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaPSQLno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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