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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Drill vs. GeoMesa vs. mSQL

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
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 StorageGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbdrill.apache.orgwww.geomesa.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdrill.apache.org/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationCCRi and othersHughes Technologies
Initial release201220141994
Current release1.20.3, January 20234.0.5, February 20244.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingdepending on storage layernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynonedepending on storage layernone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourcedepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourceyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageno
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