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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Drill vs. BaseX vs. Firebird

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Drill vs. BaseX vs. Firebird

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedrill.apache.orgbasex.orgwww.firebirdsql.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.basex.orgwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manuals
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationBaseX GmbHFirebird Foundation
Initial release2016201220072000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase
Current release1.20.3, January 202310.7, August 20235.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infoXQuery supports typesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesPSQL
Triggersnonoyes infovia eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnomultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noDepending on the underlying data source
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensDepending on the underlying data sourceUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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