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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. DolphinDB vs. FileMaker vs. VoltDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.dolphindb.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAlibabaDolphinDB, IncClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleVoltDB Inc.
Initial release201819832010
Current releasev2.00.4, January 202219.4.1, November 202111.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community version availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++Java, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML format
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyes infovia pluginsyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
PHPC#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesJava
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAdministrators, Users, Groupssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesUsers and roles with access to stored procedures
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