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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Firebird vs. HugeGraph

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

impala.apache.org

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Firebird Foundation

Baidu

Initial release

2013

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2018

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

5.0.0, January 2024

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

PSQL

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users, roles and permissions

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