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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Firebird vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Firebird vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TimesTen

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAlibabaFirebird FoundationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MicrosoftOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20162000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201020151998
Current release5.0.0, January 2024V111 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++Erlang
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoPL/SQL
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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