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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Altibase vs. Badger vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Pinecone

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  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 embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbaltibase.comgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAlibabaAltibaseDGraph LabsInterSystemsPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release1999201720182019
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232023.3, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC++Go
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesString, Number, Boolean
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL-92noyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Java
Go.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsnoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
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.yesyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes
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Alibaba Cloud PolarDBAltibaseBadgerInterSystems IRISPinecone
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