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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. NSDb

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseAn analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.24
Rank#312  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score21.06
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#190  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gbase.cnnsdb.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperAlibabaFirebird Foundation
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2017
Current release5.0.0, January 2024GBase 8a
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLno
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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