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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. BigObject vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite vs. Tkrzw

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NameAlibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  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 queriesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.49
Rank#266  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#333  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#114  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score118.16
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#380  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbbigobject.iopouchdb.comwww.sqlite.orgdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.bigobject.iopouchdb.com/­guideswww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperAlibabaBigObject, Inc.Apache Software FoundationDwayne Richard HippMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release2015201220002020
Current release7.1.1, June 20193.45.2  (12 March 2024), March 20240.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-lessLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infodynamic column typesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.no
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 indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
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
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuaView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnononono
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