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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Databricks vs. Drizzle vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. KairosDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.databricks.comwww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.databricks.comwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidekairosdb.github.io
DeveloperAlibabaDatabricksDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCommunity supported by Red Hat
Initial release2013200820142013
Current release7.2.4, September 20121.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyeswith Databricks SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHTTP RESTGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Python
R
Scala
C
C++
Java
PHP
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions and aggregatesnonono
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infovia Hawkular Alertingno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
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
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnosimple password-based access control
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