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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. BigObject vs. Hyprcubd vs. Prometheus vs. Realm

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  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 queriesServerless Time Series DBMSOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbbigobject.iohyprcubd.com (offline)prometheus.iorealm.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.bigobject.ioprometheus.io/­docsrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaBigObject, Inc.Hyprcubd, Inc.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release201520152014
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedLinux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringNumeric data onlyyes
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.yesnonono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (https)RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuanonono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersyesnononoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)noyes
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.yesyesnonoyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnotoken accessnoyes
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