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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB

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Name

Description

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

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.29
Rank	#155	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#299	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

Developer

Alibaba

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access managed on TSDB instance level

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Recent citations in the news

Alibaba Cloud’s PolarDB Breaks TPC-C Benchmark World Record with Innovative ‘Three-Layer Decoupling’ Architecture
26 February 2025, Alizila

Alibaba Cloud’s PolarDB Breaks TPC-C Record
12 March 2025, CDOTrends

Figure 1: Illustration of POLARDB architecture.
3 November 2024, ResearchGate

Alibaba Cloud's PolarDB sets new world record on TPC-C test
3 March 2025, IT Brief New Zealand

Alibaba Cloud PolarDB Tops Global Database Performance, Price/tpmC Rankings
25 February 2025, AASTOCKS.com

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