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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Riak KV vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Riak KV vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  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 dataDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbdruid.apache.orgvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesVictoriaMetrics
Initial release201220092018
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.2.0, December 2022v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL for queryingnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoErlangno
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
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.yesnono
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 systemyes, using Riak Security
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