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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. SiriDB vs. Yaacomo

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsOpen Source Time Series DBMSOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbiotdb.apache.orgwww.gigaspaces.comsiridb.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmldocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.siridb.com
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationGigaspaces TechnologiesCesbitQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release2018200020172009
Current release1.1.0, April 202315.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetC
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoNumeric datayes
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesno
Triggersyesyesyes, event driven architecturenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)ShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparkyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
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.yesyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesRole-based access controlsimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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