DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebird vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebird vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TDengine

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

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

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.bigchaindb.com

www.firebirdsql.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Alibaba

Firebird Foundation

Sybase, SAP

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2016

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1993

2019

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

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

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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