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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Pinot vs. Firebird vs. Kinetica

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Name

Description

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

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

pinot.apache.org

www.firebirdsql.org

www.kinetica.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.pinot.apache.org

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.kinetica.com

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Firebird Foundation

Kinetica

Initial release

2015

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2012

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

5.0.0, January 2024

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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