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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Citus vs. NuoDB

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Name

Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.59
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org

www.citusdata.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.citusdata.com

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2010

2013

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

8.1, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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