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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Pinot vs. EDB Postgres vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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 latencyThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbpinot.apache.orgwww.enterprisedb.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.pinot.apache.orgwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsEnterpriseDB
Initial release201520052014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release1.0.0, September 202314, December 202110 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaCC
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.yes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functions
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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