DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Firebird vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Firebird vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.featurebase.com

www.firebirdsql.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.featurebase.com

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Firebird Foundation

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2013

Current release

2022, May 2022

5.0.0, January 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

yes

ACID

yes

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, using Linux fsync

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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