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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. BigObject vs. Geode vs. Greenplum vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. BigObject vs. Geode vs. Greenplum vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAlibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#266  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#333  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score2.38
Rank#123  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score9.20
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.56
Rank#253  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbbigobject.iogeode.apache.orggreenplum.orgwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.bigobject.iogeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaBigObject, Inc.Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Pivotal Software Inc.
Initial release2015200220052014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release1.1, February 20177.0.0, September 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes infosince Version 4.2yes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (OQL)yesyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuauser defined functionsyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes, on a single nodeACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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