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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Phoenix vs. MaxDB vs. Sadas Engine

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  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 dataA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbdruid.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgmaxdb.sap.comwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designphoenix.apache.orgmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software FoundationSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997SADAS s.r.l.
Initial release2012201419842006
Current release29.0.1, April 20245.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20197.9.10.12, February 20248.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL for queryingyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
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 Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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