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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. Altibase vs. Apache IoTDB vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. Altibase vs. Apache IoTDB vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite

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NameAlibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#266  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score1.21
Rank#182  Overall
#83  Relational DBMS
Score1.19
Rank#183  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#114  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score118.16
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbaltibase.comiotdb.apache.orgpouchdb.comwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlpouchdb.com/­guideswww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperAlibabaAltibaseApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release1999201820122000
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.1.0, April 20237.1.1, June 20193.45.2  (12 March 2024), March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaScriptC
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languagenoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
Native API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
JavaScriptActionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsyesView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)Sharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparkyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnono
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