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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. RethinkDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbblazegraph.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gbase.cnrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbwiki.blazegraph.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaBlazegraphFirebird FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20062000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20042009
Current release2.1.5, March 20195.0.0, January 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C, Java, PythonC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languageyesStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesPSQLuser defined functions
TriggersnonoyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Users with fine-grained authorization conceptyesyes infousers and table-level permissions

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