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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. RethinkDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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 cloudGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouserethinkdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonCCRi and othersIBMThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2012201420142009
Current release4.0.5, February 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageScalaC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.yesnono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoPL/SQL, SQL PL
TriggersyesnonoyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requireddepending on storage layerShardingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infomanaged transparently by AWSdepending on storage layeryesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
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.yesdepending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentication via encrypted signaturesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissions
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