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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Firebird vs. TimescaleDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Firebird vs. TimescaleDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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 InterBaseA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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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
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.timescale.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAlibabaFirebird FoundationTimescale
Initial release20192000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20172009
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++CJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPSQLuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesnone
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 replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infonone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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