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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Datomic vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpaceTime vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Datomic vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpaceTime vs. SpatiaLite

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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 durabilityRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.datomic.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.datomic.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectSAP infoformerly SybaseMireoAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2012199220202008
Current release1.0.6735, June 202317, July 20155.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++C++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-less
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnono
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 peersnoneFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
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 developmentyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno
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