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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. EsgynDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SpatiaLite

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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 cloudEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.heavy.aiwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonEsgynHEAVY.AI, Inc.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release2012201520162008
Current release5.10, January 20225.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, JavaC++ and CUDAC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinuxserver-less
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava Stored Proceduresnono
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infoRound robinnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication between multi datacentersMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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