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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. etcd vs. FatDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA 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 serviceA distributed reliable key-value storeA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.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.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
firebase.google.com/­products/­firestore
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
firebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore
DeveloperAlibabaAlibabaFatCloudGoogle
Initial release20122017
Current release3.4, August 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC#
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Windowshosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsnoyesyes
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 indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono infoVia inetgration in SQL Serverno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTgRPC
JSON over HTTP
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Java.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
C#Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infovia applicationsyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions
Triggersyesnoyes, watching key changesyes infovia applicationsyes, with Cloud Functions
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesUsing Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnono infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.
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