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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Hyprcubd

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchServerless Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbaws.amazon.com/­redshiftgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroichyprcubd.com (offline)
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAlibabaAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)SpotifyHyprcubd, Inc.
Initial release201220132014
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageCGoJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, string
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictednoyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
gRPC (https)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin Pythonnonono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
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.yesyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnotoken access
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