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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. dBASE vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. HugeGraph

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Name

Description

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

dBase 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.

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.dbase.com

www.firebirdsql.org

www.gbase.cn

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Asthon Tate

Firebird Foundation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Baidu

Initial release

1979

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2004

2018

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

5.0.0, January 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

Java

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

PSQL

user defined functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

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

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

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

Users, roles and permissions

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