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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Rockset vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Rockset vs. SWC-DB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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 cloudDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.82
Rank#205  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaserockset.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonMicrosoftRocksetAlex Kashirin
Initial release2012201020192020
Current releaseV120.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedhostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesdynamic typing
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.yesyesno infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoTransact SQLnono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes, with always 3 replicas availableyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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