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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Altibase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. TerarkDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeVector DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score0.05
Rank#386  Overall
#14  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbaltibase.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAlibabaAltibaseInterSystemsByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release1999201820162023
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232023.3, June 20231.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoVector, Numeric and String
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.yesnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL-92yesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Java
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsyesnono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
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 replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
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.yesyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnoRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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Alibaba Cloud PolarDBAltibaseInterSystems IRISTerarkDBTranswarp Hippo
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