DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. EsgynDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. EsgynDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SpatiaLite

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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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.59
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

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

www.esgyn.cn

www.postgres-xl.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Alibaba

Atos Convergence Creators

Esgyn

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2016

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2008

Current release

1703

10 R1, October 2018

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages with LDAP bindings

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

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

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

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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