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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Cubrid vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Cubrid vs. PostGIS

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.29
Rank#155  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.95
Rank#186  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score19.61
Rank#30  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
postgis.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewcubrid.org/­manualspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation
Initial release20082005
Current release11.0, January 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Proceduresuser defined functions
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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