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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. ArcadeDB vs. Datomic vs. Ingres

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. ArcadeDB vs. Datomic vs. Ingres

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonArcadeDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewrittenDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityWell established RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS infoin next version
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#358  Overall
#48  Document stores
#38  Graph DBMS
#52  Key-value stores
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbarcadedb.comwww.datomic.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.arcadedb.comdocs.datomic.comdocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperAlibabaArcade DataCognitectActian Corporation
Initial release202120121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current releaseSeptember 20211.0.7075, December 202311.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureC
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
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.yesnonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language, no joinsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
JavaClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsyes
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal 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 replicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationship in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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