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DBMS > Altibase vs. Apache Druid vs. Firebird vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Druid vs. Firebird vs. STSdb

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitealtibase.comdruid.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manuals
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software Foundation and contributorsFirebird FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release199920122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2011
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202329.0.1, April 20245.0.0, January 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++C#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Unix
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL for queryingyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoPSQLno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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