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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb vs. Tibero

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparison
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 ScioreIn-memory JavaScript DBMSNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score1.78
Rank#140  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sequoiadb.comus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indextechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonSequoiadb Ltd.TmaxSoft
Initial release2007201420132003
Current release6, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C and Assembler
Server operating systemshostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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 indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJavaScript APIproprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions in JavaScriptJavaScriptPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono infoplanned for next version
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)nosimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)
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