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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Brytlyt vs. GigaSpaces vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Sadas Engine

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsWidely used in-process key-value storeSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Key-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#276  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbbrytlyt.iowww.gigaspaces.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.brytlyt.iodocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperAlibabaBrytlytGigaspaces TechnologiesOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release2016200019942006
Current release5.0, August 202315.5, September 202018.1.40, May 20208.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, C++ and CUDAJava, C++, .NetC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.yesyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatayes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLyesnono
Triggersyesyesyes, event driven architectureyes infoonly for the SQL APIno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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