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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Firebird vs. Interbase vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Firebird vs. Interbase vs. Teradata

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.teradata.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.teradata.com
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonFirebird FoundationEmbarcaderoTeradata
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase19841984
Current release5.0.0, January 2024InterBase 2020, December 2019Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++C
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyesyes
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 infoexport as XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPSQLyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednonenoneSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationInterbase Change ViewsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelauthentication via encrypted signaturesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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