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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. DuckDB vs. FatDB vs. Firebird vs. RavenDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeduckdb.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgravendb.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreduckdb.org/­docswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaFatCloudFirebird FoundationHibernating Rhinos
Initial release2016201820122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2010
Current release0.10, February 20245.0.0, January 20245.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C#C and C++C#
Server operating systemshostedserver-lessWindowsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServeryesSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C#C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infovia applicationsPSQLyes
Triggersnonoyes infovia applicationsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnoACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 tokensnono infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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