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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Firebird vs. GridDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  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 InterBaseScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Time Series DBMS
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#123  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
#16  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.firebirdsql.orggriddb.netwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.griddb.netcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperAlibabaFirebird FoundationToshiba CorporationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201320102015
Current release5.0.1, August 20245.1, August 20223.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++C++ErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)noA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID at container levelno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accounts

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