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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Altibase vs. Axibase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Altibase vs. Axibase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RavenDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationA multi-model DBMS and application serverOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.90
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#204  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#307  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#99  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbaltibase.comaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheravendb.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.intersystems.comravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaAltibaseAxibase CorporationInterSystemsHibernating Rhinos
Initial release1999201319972010
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023155852018.1.4, May 20205.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC#
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesdepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesno
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
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Java
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsyesyesyes
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAuthorization levels configured per client per database
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