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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. KairosDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreA multi-model DBMS and application serverDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.intersystems.comkairosdb.github.io
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonInterSystems
Initial release200719972013
Current release2018.1.4, May 20201.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDno
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and rolessimple password-based access control
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