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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. dBASE vs. EDB Postgres vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IRONdb

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database servicedBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.dbase.comwww.enterprisedb.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.enterprisedb.com/­docscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperAlibabaAsthon TateEnterpriseDBGoogleCirconus LLC.
Initial release1979200520152017
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201914, December 2021V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageCC and C++
Server operating systemshostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavadBase proprietary IDE.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes, in Lua
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDAtomic single-row operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)no

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