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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Infobright vs. RavenDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  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 dataHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.82
Rank#205  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#102  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbdruid.apache.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbravendb.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Hibernating Rhinos
Initial release201220052010
Current release30.0.0, June 20245.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaCC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL for queryingyesSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
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.yesnoyes
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 systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesAuthorization levels configured per client per database
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