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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. BigObject vs. SwayDB vs. Tarantool

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

In-memory database with an integrated application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	0.52
Rank	#237	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#329	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#341	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	1.34
Rank	#151	Overall
	#28	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

bigobject.io

swaydb.io

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.bigobject.io

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Alibaba

BigObject, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Mail.ru Group

Initial release

2015

2018

2008

Current release

2.4.2, July 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C and 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)

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Hash sharding based on virtual buckets

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Multi-source replication
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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes, with SQL

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

ACID, read commited

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, regular snapshots on disk, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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