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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. RocksDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.82
Rank#205  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#125  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#138  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbphoenix.apache.orgwww.exasol.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerrocksdb.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewphoenix.apache.orgwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationExasolClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleFacebook, Inc.
Initial release2014200019832013
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201919.4.1, November 20219.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yesnonoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesyes infovia pluginsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
Lua
Python
R
PHPC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoyes
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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesno
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