DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. MongoDB vs. Transbase vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. MongoDB vs. Transbase vs. YugabyteDB

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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

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.66
Rank	#235	Overall
	#108	Relational DBMS

Score	421.08
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

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

www.mongodb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

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

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Alibaba

Atos Convergence Creators

MongoDB, Inc

Transaction Software GmbH

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2016

2009

1987

2017

Current release

1703

6.0.7, June 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

commercial

free development license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages with LDAP bindings

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

yes

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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