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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Kinetica

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.kinetica.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperAlibabaDragonflyDB team and community contributorsKinetica
Initial release20232012
Current release1.0, March 20237.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesscheme-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuauser defined functions
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users and roles on table level
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