DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. mSQL vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. mSQL vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.firebirdsql.org

www.gbase.cn

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

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

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

Developer

Alibaba

Firebird Foundation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Hughes Technologies

Transwarp

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2004

1994

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

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

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