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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Impala vs. mSQL vs. Prometheus vs. Transbase

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Analytic DBMS for HadoopmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbimpala.apache.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlprometheus.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlprometheus.io/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaHughes TechnologiesTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2013199420151987
Current release4.1.0, June 20224.4, October 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++CGoC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factornoneyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
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.yesnononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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