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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. DuckDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. STSdb

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbduckdb.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewduckdb.org/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­database
DeveloperAlibabaGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014STS Soft SC
Initial release201820122011
Current release0.10, February 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C#
Server operating systemshostedserver-lesshostedWindows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnolimited functionality with using 'rules'no
TriggersyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesno
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