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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. OpenSearch vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase

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NameAlibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.49
Rank#266  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score14.72
Rank#40  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score2.81
Rank#110  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#385  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.20
Rank#327  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
rethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.auwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewopensearch.org/­docs/­latestrethinkdb.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAlibabaAmazon Web ServicesThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Simer PlahaTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2021200920181987
Current release2.5.0, January 20232.4.1, August 2020Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyes
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureClient-side triggers through changefeedsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of operationsyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDBOpenSearchRethinkDBSwayDBTransbase
Specific characteristicsApsaraDB for PolarDB is a cloud-native relational database 100% compatible with MySQL...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesWebinar: Top Scientists Live: Tech Secrets to Double 11's Success Revealed. White...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosCreating a Robust Cloud-Based Database for Fintech, E-Commerce and Gaming. Learn...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSpecification and pricing. You can use either of the following billing methods to...
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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