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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. FatDB vs. Firebird vs. STSdb vs. TimesTen

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Alibaba

FatCloud

Firebird Foundation

STS Soft SC

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2011

1998

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

PSQL

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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