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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Pinot vs. Firebird vs. GridDB vs. YugabyteDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#102  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbpinot.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orggriddb.netwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.pinot.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.griddb.netdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsFirebird FoundationToshiba CorporationYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20132017
Current release1.0.0, September 20235.0.0, January 20245.1, August 20222.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open 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 infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesdepending on used data model
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBCADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
Python
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#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneShardingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector 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 consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID at container levelDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
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 levelUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud TSDBApache PinotFirebirdGridDBYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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