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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Drizzle vs. Heroic vs. TypeDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded 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 StorageMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbdrill.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroictypedb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdrill.apache.org/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroictypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSpotifyVaticle
Initial release2012200820142016
Current release1.20.3, January 20237.2.4, September 20122.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infowith proprietary extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++C
C++
Java
PHP
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyesnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingShardingSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
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 sourcenono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourcePluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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