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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Pinot vs. ArcadeDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Ingres

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Pinot vs. ArcadeDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Ingres

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonArcadeDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyFast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewrittenBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsWell established RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS infoin next version
Document storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#358  Overall
#48  Document stores
#38  Graph DBMS
#52  Key-value stores
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbpinot.apache.orgarcadedb.comwww.bigchaindb.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.arcadedb.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsArcade DataActian Corporation
Initial release2015202120161974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current release1.0.0, September 2023September 202111.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaPythonC
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language, no joinsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBCJDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
Python
JavaGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationship in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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