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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Google BigQuery

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Name

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Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.82
Rank	#205	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

cloud.google.com/bigquery

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

Google

Initial release

2012

2016

2010

Current release

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

LDAP

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

cell division

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

authentication via encrypted signatures

LDAP bind authentication

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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