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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. Tibero

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.78
Rank#140  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJStechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaSpotifyTmaxSoft
Initial release2013201420142003
Current release6, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaScriptC and Assembler
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
GoJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoView functions in JavaScriptPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesno infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)
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