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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Citus vs. GeoSpock vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Citus vs. GeoSpock vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Tibero

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.78
Rank#140  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.citusdata.comgeospock.comwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.citusdata.comtechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaGeoSpockSybase, SAPTmaxSoft
Initial release201019932003
Current release8.1, December 20182.0, September 20196, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageCJava, JavascriptC and Assembler
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 functionalitynonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Delphi
Perl
PHP
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyesPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingAutomatic shardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredno infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)
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