DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. SQL.JS vs. SWC-DB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. SQL.JS vs. SWC-DB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

In-memory caching system

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.59
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

cachelot.io

sql.js.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Alex Kashirin

Yanza

Initial release

2015

2012

2020

2015

Current release

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

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-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Memcached protocol

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C++

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

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