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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. LokiJS vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. LokiJS vs. Transbase

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Document storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbdrill.apache.orgatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorygithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdrill.apache.org/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationAtos Convergence CreatorsTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2012201620141987
Current release1.20.3, January 20231703Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Sourcecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalnoyes
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.yesnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
LDAPJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++All languages with LDAP bindingsJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infocell divisionnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic execution of specific operationsno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourceLDAP bind authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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