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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Datomic vs. Firebird vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Datomic vs. Firebird vs. SiteWhere

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.datomic.comwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.datomic.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectFirebird FoundationSiteWhere
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2010
Current release1.0.7075, December 20235.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaClojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction FunctionsPSQL
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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