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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. EXASOL vs. SAP IQ vs. SQL.JS

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMS
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Score0.82
Rank#205  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#138  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score2.56
Rank#106  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#246  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.exasol.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlsql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwww.exasol.com/­resourceshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaExasolSAP, formerly SybaseAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release200019942012
Current release16.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Java
Lua
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSAP/Sybase Replication Servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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