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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Heroic vs. Machbase Neo

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison
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 widely adopted in-memory data gridTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.bigchaindb.comhazelcast.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmachbase.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesthazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicmachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperAlibabaHazelcastSpotifyMachbase
Initial release2016200820142013
Current release5.3.6, November 2023V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
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.yesnoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnono
Triggersyesyes infoEventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factoryes infoReplicated Mapyesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesRole-based access controlsimple password-based access control
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