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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Firebird vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Qdrant

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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

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector 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	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.firebirdsql.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

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

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Firebird Foundation

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Qdrant

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1984

2021

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

HP Open VMS

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Collection-level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Key-based authentication

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