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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. BigObject vs. GBase vs. Hyprcubd vs. NuoDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Serverless Time Series DBMSNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbbigobject.iowww.gbase.cnhyprcubd.com (offline)www.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.bigobject.iodoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperAlibabaBigObject, Inc.General Data Technology Co., Ltd.Hyprcubd, Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release201520042013
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonGoC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linuxhostedhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyes
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.yesnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (https)ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuauser defined functionsnoJava, SQL
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyesyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesnoyes infoMVCC
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.yesyesnoyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyestoken accessStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users
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