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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Axibase vs. OpenTenBase vs. STSdb vs. Vertica

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Name

Description

A 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 visualization

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.59
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Axibase Corporation

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

STS Soft SC

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2013

2011

2005

Current release

15585

2.5, January 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

none

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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