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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. Sphinx

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gbase.cnsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaCambridge SemanticsFirebird FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20182000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20042001
Current release2.3, January 20215.0.0, January 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C, Java, PythonC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesno
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yesStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesPSQLuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infonot needed in graphsyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesno

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