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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Axibase vs. GeoSpock vs. OrientDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegeospock.comorientdb.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaAxibase CorporationGeoSpockOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20132010
Current release155852.0, September 20193.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesnotemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoJava, Javascript
TriggersyesyesnoHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable
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