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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. Apache Impala vs. BigObject vs. Ingres

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. Apache Impala vs. BigObject vs. Ingres

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NameAlibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Analytic DBMS for HadoopAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesWell established RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.49
Rank#266  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score15.06
Rank#39  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#333  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score5.15
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbimpala.apache.orgbigobject.iowww.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.bigobject.iodocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBigObject, Inc.Actian Corporation
Initial release201320151974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current release4.1.0, June 202211.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree community edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceLuayes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factornoneIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infoMVCC
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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