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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. Memcached vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#307  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score22.42
Rank#34  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#403  Overall
#163  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.memcached.orgwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­58764.htmgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperAlibabaDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalTranswarp
Initial release2003
Current release1.6.19, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageC
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
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.yes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol
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Specific characteristicsApsaraDB for PolarDB is a cloud-native relational database 100% compatible with MySQL...
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