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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Cubrid vs. EventStoreDB vs. Firebird vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.eventstore.com

www.firebirdsql.org

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

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

cubrid.org/manuals

developers.eventstore.com

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Alibaba

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Event Store Limited

Firebird Foundation

Google

Initial release

2008

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2014

Current release

11.0, January 2021

21.2, February 2021

5.0.0, January 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

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, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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