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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Altibase vs. EsgynDB vs. GBase

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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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Primary database model

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	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

altibase.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.gbase.cn

Technical documentation

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

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

Developer

Alibaba

Altibase

Esgyn

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Initial release

1999

2015

2004

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL-92

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

yes

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