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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Altibase vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Derby vs. Tibero

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbaltibase.comiotdb.apache.orgdb.apache.org/­derbyus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmldb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmltechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaAltibaseApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationTmaxSoft
Initial release1999201819972003
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.1.0, April 202310.17.1.0, November 20236, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC and Assembler
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
Native API
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
JavaC
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsyesJava Stored ProceduresPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)nonehorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
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.yesyesyesyesno infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)
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