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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. FeatureBase vs. IBM Db2 vs. Percona Server for MySQL

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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

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Trend Chart

Score	0.66
Rank	#235	Overall
	#108	Relational DBMS

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.featurebase.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.featurebase.com

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

IBM

Percona

Initial release

2012

2017

1983

host version

2008

Current release

2022, May 2022

12.1, October 2016

8.0.36-28, 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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