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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. ArcadeDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner

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Name

Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Relational DBMS

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Score	0.52
Rank	#237	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#300	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#43	Key-value stores
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.68
Rank	#92	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

arcadedb.com

cloud.google.com/spanner

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/58764.htm

docs.arcadedb.com

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Arcade Data

Google

Initial release

2021

2017

Current release

September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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