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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Dragonfly vs. EventStoreDB vs. Firebird vs. GBase

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeEvent StoreRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.eventstore.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gbase.cn
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdevelopers.eventstore.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manuals
DeveloperAlibabaDragonflyDB team and community contributorsEvent Store LimitedFirebird FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.
Initial release2016202320122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2004
Current release1.0, March 202321.2, February 20215.0.0, January 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C, Java, Python
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesStandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuaPSQLuser defined functions
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensPassword-based authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes

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