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

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Name

Description

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

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.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

Technical documentation

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

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Alibaba

Firebird Foundation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2004

2017

2020

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, Java, Python

Java, Scala

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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