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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Altibase vs. PouchDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storealtibase.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualspouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAlibabaAlibabaAltibaseApache Software Foundation
Initial release201619992012
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoANSI SQL-92no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Java
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnostored procedures and stored functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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