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

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 networksA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.82
Rank#205  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#126  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#174  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#355  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbdrill.apache.orgatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorysurrealdb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdrill.apache.org/­docssurrealdb.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationAtos Convergence CreatorsSurrealDB LtdTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2012201620221987
Current release1.20.3, January 20231703v1.5.0, May 2024Transbase 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 languageJavaRustC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
LDAPGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++All languages with LDAP bindingsDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infocell division
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourceLDAP bind authenticationyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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