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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Kylin vs. Firebird vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

kylin.apache.org

www.firebirdsql.org

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

kylin.apache.org/docs

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Firebird Foundation

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2016

2015

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1984

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

5.0.0, January 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

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 rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users and groups

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