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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. SQL.JS

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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

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#312	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	21.06
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#248	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.firebirdsql.org

Technical documentation

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

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Firebird Foundation

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2012

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

GBase 8a

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

no

no

no

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

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.

no

no

Secondary indexes

no

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

no

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

PSQL

no

Triggers

no

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no

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