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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. BigchainDB vs. FatDB vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. BigchainDB vs. FatDB vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroichsqldb.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroichsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperAlibabaFatCloudSpotify
Initial release2016201220142001
Current release2.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonC#JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxWindowsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnono infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infovia applicationsnoJava, SQL
Triggersyesyes infovia applicationsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorselectable replication factoryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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