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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Firebird vs. JanusGraph

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Name

Description

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

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

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.firebirdsql.org

janusgraph.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.janusgraph.org

Developer

Alibaba

Firebird Foundation

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Initial release

2016

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2017

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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