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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Brytlyt vs. GBase vs. LokiJS

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.59
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

brytlyt.io

www.gbase.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

docs.brytlyt.io

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Alibaba

Atos Convergence Creators

Brytlyt

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2004

2014

Current release

1703

5.0, August 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and CUDA

C, Java, Python

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

cell division

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

LDAP bind authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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