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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. ClickHouse vs. PostGIS vs. STSdb

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NameAlibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#266  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score16.31
Rank#37  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score24.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#344  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbclickhouse.compostgis.netgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewclickhouse.com/­docspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaClickhouse Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release201620052011
Current releasev23.12.1.1368-stable, December 20233.4.2, February 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++CC#
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C# info3rd party library
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Java info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party library
Kotlin info3rd party library
Nim info3rd party library
Perl info3rd party library
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Rust
Scala info3rd party library
C#
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Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicekey based and customyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.yes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.yes infobased on PostgreSQLno
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Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDBClickHousePostGISSTSdb
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