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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Drizzle vs. HBase vs. mSQL vs. Rockset

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTablemSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbhbase.apache.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAlibabaDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHughes TechnologiesRockset
Initial release2008200819942019
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.3.4, January 20214.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC++JavaCC++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesdynamic typing
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.yesnonono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingnoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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