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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Derby vs. Fauna vs. GeoSpock

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Derby vs. Fauna vs. GeoSpock

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbdb.apache.org/­derbyfauna.comgeospock.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.fauna.com
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationFauna, Inc.GeoSpock
Initial release19972014
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20232.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyes
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Implementation languageJavaScalaJava, Javascript
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesyestemporal, categorical
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBCRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
JavaC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Proceduresuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per table
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