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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Dolt vs. Firebird vs. GBase

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Name

Description

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

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

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

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.95
Rank	#197	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	21.06
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.firebirdsql.org

www.gbase.cn

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.dolthub.com

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

Developer

Alibaba

DoltHub Inc

Firebird Foundation

Initial release

2016

2018

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

GBase 8a

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

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

CLI Client
HTTP REST

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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