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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BigObject vs. Firebird vs. GBase

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BigObject vs. Firebird vs. GBase

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseAn analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.24
Rank#312  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#342  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score21.06
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#190  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbbigobject.iowww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gbase.cn
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.bigobject.iowww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manuals
DeveloperAlibabaBigObject, Inc.Firebird Foundation
Initial release20152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase
Current release5.0.0, January 2024GBase 8a
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuaPSQL
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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