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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Firebird vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Firebird vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRDF storeDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score3.62
Rank#83  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.firebirdsql.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Firebird FoundationDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release200020122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2018
Current release4.9.0, July 20235.0.0, January 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'PSQLyes
Triggersnoyes infovia event handlerCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoTDB TransactionsyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess control via Jena Securityyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access control

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