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

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database servicedBase 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 InterBaseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.23
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Time Series DBMS
Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#310  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.dbase.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gbase.cnwww.speedb.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manuals
DeveloperAlibabaAsthon TateFirebird FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Speedb
Initial release19792000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20042020
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.0.1, August 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C, Java, PythonC++
Server operating systemshostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyesno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavadBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.PSQLuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
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
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesno

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