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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. openGauss

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparison
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 FlinkAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbiotdb.apache.orggitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmldocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationHuawei and openGauss community
Initial release20182019
Current release1.1.0, April 20233.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageANSI SQL 2011
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)
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 replicasSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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