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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. BoltDB vs. Hive vs. RocksDB vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

An embedded key-value store for Go.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

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Score	0.59
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

github.com/boltdb/bolt

hive.apache.org

rocksdb.org

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Facebook, Inc.

SenX

Initial release

2013

2012

2013

2015

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

selectable replication factor

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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