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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Ehcache vs. EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. OrigoDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.ehcache.orgwww.esgyn.cnwww.firebirdsql.orgorigodb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGEsgynFirebird FoundationRobert Friberg et al
Initial release200920152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release3.10.0, March 20225.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, JavaC and C++C#
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collections
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JCacheADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
JavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava Stored ProceduresPSQLyes
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesdepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
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-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole based authorization
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