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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Bangdb vs. Elasticsearch

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.82
Rank#205  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#346  Overall
#47  Document stores
#35  Graph DBMS
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score128.79
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbbangdb.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearch
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.bangdb.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaSachin Sinha, BangDBElastic
Initial release20122010
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20218.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoElastic License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoES-Hadoop Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, run db with in-memory only modeMemcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes (enterprise version only)
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