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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. Kinetica vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. Kinetica vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server 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 serviceFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gbase.cnwww.kinetica.comwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperAlibabaFirebird FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.KineticaSybase, SAP
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200420121993
Current release5.0.0, January 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c7.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C, Java, PythonC, C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
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.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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