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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. SwayDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAnalytic DBMS for HadoopAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.27
Rank#160  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score2.86
Rank#90  Overall
#49  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score11.30
Rank#41  Overall
#25  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#380  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbdruid.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaSimer Plaha
Initial release201220132018
Current release30.0.0, June 20244.1.0, June 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosno
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