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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. ClickHouse vs. OpenEdge vs. Yanza

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Name

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Description

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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.66
Rank	#235	Overall
	#108	Relational DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

clickhouse.com

www.progress.com/openedge

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

clickhouse.com/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Alibaba

Clickhouse Inc.

Progress Software Corporation

Yanza

Initial release

2016

1984

2015

Current release

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

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

key based and custom

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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 and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Users and groups

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