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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Datomic vs. Hypertable vs. LokiJS vs. OpenEdge

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 durabilityAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopIn-memory JavaScript DBMSApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.datomic.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectHypertable Inc.Progress Software Corporation
Initial release2012200920141984
Current release1.0.7075, December 20230.9.8.11, March 2016OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Thrift
JavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
Java
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction FunctionsnoView functions in JavaScriptyes
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factor on file system levelnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
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 developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnononoUsers and groups
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