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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. BaseX vs. MonetDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.82
Rank#205  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbbasex.orgwww.monetdb.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.basex.orgwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAlibabaBaseX GmbHMonetDB BVAlessandro Furieri
Initial release200720042008
Current release11.2, August 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writerACIDACID
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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