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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Firebird vs. GridDB vs. JaguarDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Firebird vs. GridDB vs. JaguarDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Time Series DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#123  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
#16  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbdruid.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orggriddb.netwww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.griddb.netwww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsFirebird FoundationToshiba CorporationDataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20132015
Current release30.0.0, June 20245.0.1, August 20245.1, August 20223.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open 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 infoGPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingyesSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPSQLnono
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID at container levelno
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accounts

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