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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blueflood vs. Couchbase

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Name

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.66
Rank	#235	Overall
	#108	Relational DBMS

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

blueflood.io

www.couchbase.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.couchbase.com

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Rackspace

Couchbase, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2011

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

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

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

HTTP REST

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

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

based on Cassandra

Automatic Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

managed transparently by AWS

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

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

Ephemeral buckets

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentication via encrypted signatures

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

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