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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. GBase

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbaws.amazon.com/­documentdbphoenix.apache.orgwww.gbase.cn
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesphoenix.apache.org
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.
Initial release201920142004
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, Python
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesStandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBCADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-document operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyes
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