DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Bangdb vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. HugeGraph

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Bangdb vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. HugeGraph

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Name

Description

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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

bangdb.com

www.firebirdsql.org

www.gbase.cn

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.bangdb.com

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Firebird Foundation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Baidu

Initial release

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2004

2018

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.0.0, January 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and C++

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

user defined functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

yes

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Source-replica replication

yes

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

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

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

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

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

yes (enterprise version only)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

Users, roles and permissions

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