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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. EsgynDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Splunk

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  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 accessEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.esgyn.cnwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAlibabaAlibabaEsgynSplunk Inc.
Initial release201620152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2003
Current release10 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava Stored Proceduresuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication between multi datacentersMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsACIDACID infoMVCCno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
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.yesnononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles
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