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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Drizzle vs. Quasardb vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Drizzle vs. Quasardb vs. STSdb

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Analytic DBMS for HadoopMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbimpala.apache.orgquasar.aigithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerquasardbSTS Soft SC
Initial release2013200820092011
Current release4.1.0, June 20227.2.4, September 20123.14.1, January 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++C#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCHTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonono
Triggersyesnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno
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