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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Cassandra vs. MaxDB vs. mSQL vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	0.82
Rank	#205	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

cassandra.apache.org

maxdb.sap.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

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

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2008

1984

1994

2017

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

7.9.10.12, February 2024

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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 can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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