DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Interbase

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Interbase

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.59
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Technical documentation

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

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

Alibaba

Altibase

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Embarcadero

Initial release

1999

2012

1984

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

29.0.1, April 2024

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL-92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Interbase Change Views

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

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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