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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Datomic vs. GBase vs. OpenTSDB vs. WakandaDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.datomic.comwww.gbase.cnopentsdb.netwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.datomic.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsWakanda SAS
Initial release2012200420112012
Current release1.0.7075, December 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC, Java, PythonJavaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.yesnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoStandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
Java
C#Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsnoyes
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesnoyes
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