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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. HBase vs. LokiJS

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.An embedded key-value store for Go.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.datomic.comhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.datomic.comhbase.apache.org/­book.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release2013201220082014
Current release1.0.7075, December 20232.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, ClojureJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROno
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
GoClojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infoCoprocessors in JavaView functions in JavaScript
TriggersyesnoBy using transaction functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACno
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