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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. BigObject vs. DataFS vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.66
Rank	#235	Overall
	#108	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

bigobject.io

newdatabase.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

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

docs.bigobject.io

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

Developer

Alibaba

BigObject, Inc.

Mobiland AG

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2015

2018

1994

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Windows-Profile

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