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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. BaseX vs. Faircom EDGE vs. LeanXcale vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. BaseX vs. Faircom EDGE vs. LeanXcale vs. OpenTSDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSNative XML DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbbasex.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.leanxcale.comopentsdb.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.basex.orgdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaBaseX GmbHFairCom CorporationLeanXcalecurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2007197920152011
Current release10.7, August 2023V3, October 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoANSI SQL queriesyes infothrough Apache Derbyno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C
Java
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++no
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infowhen using SQLyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.no
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