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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. BigObject vs. OpenQM vs. Sequoiadb

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Description

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

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NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.52
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Score	0.05
Rank	#329	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#256	Overall
	#39	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

bigobject.io

www.openqm.com

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.bigobject.io

www.openqm.com/support/documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Alibaba

BigObject, Inc.

Martin Phillips

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2015

1993

2013

Current release

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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 DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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 can be defined down to the item level

simple password-based access control

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