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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Firebird vs. GridDB vs. Hazelcast

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA widely adopted in-memory data grid
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.firebirdsql.orggriddb.nethazelcast.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.griddb.nethazelcast.org/­imdg/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaFirebird FoundationToshiba CorporationHazelcast
Initial release20192000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20132008
Current release5.0.0, January 20245.1, August 20225.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyes
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.nononoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategy
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPSQLnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Services
Triggersnonoyesyesyes infoEvents
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoReplicated Map
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithm
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsACIDACID at container levelone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
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 levelAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole-based access control
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud TSDBAmazon DocumentDBFirebirdGridDBHazelcast
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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