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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. CockroachDB vs. Heroic vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. CockroachDB vs. Heroic vs. SwayDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA 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 networksCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.cockroachlabs.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAlibabaAtos Convergence CreatorsCockroach LabsSpotifySimer Plaha
Initial release2016201520142018
Current release170324.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaScala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsdynamic schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyesno
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.yesyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
LDAPJDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages with LDAP bindingsC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infocell divisionhorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replication using RAFTyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
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.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardLDAP bind authenticationRole-based access controlno
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