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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Lovefield vs. Memcached vs. Splice Machine

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  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 accessEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.memcached.orgsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikisplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAlibabaAlibabaGoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSplice Machine
Initial release2016201420032014
Current release2.1.12, February 20171.6.25, March 20243.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIProprietary protocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Java
Python
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoyes infoJava
TriggersyesnoUsing read-only observersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databasenoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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