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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres

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NameAlibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Serverless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#266  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score9.97
Rank#47  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score5.15
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorehyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleHyprcubd, Inc.Actian Corporation
Initial release20171974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current release11.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnoyes
Triggersyesyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes 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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.token accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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