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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. Teradata Aster

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gbase.cn
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manuals
DeveloperAlibabaCambridge SemanticsFirebird FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Teradata
Initial release20182000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20042005
Current release2.3, January 20215.0.0, January 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C, Java, Python
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yesStandard with numerous extensionsyes
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
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesPSQLuser defined functionsR packages
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterSource-replica replicationyesyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infonot needed in graphsyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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