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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. EventStoreDB vs. Firebird vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.eventstore.com

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

developers.eventstore.com

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Alibaba

Event Store Limited

Firebird Foundation

Initial release

2016

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2014

Current release

21.2, February 2021

5.0.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

View functions in JavaScript

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

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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