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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. VelocityDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. VelocityDB vs. Vitess

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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 optionsGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.ehcache.orgwww.geomesa.orgvelocitydb.comvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuidevitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGCCRi and othersVelocityDB IncThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2009201420112013
Current release3.10.0, March 20225.0.0, May 20247.x15.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC#Go
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAny that supports .NETDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JCache.NetADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Java.NetAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event ListenersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoby using Terracotta Serverdepending on storage layerShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoby using Terracotta Serverdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-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)depending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesdepending on storage layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageBased on Windows AuthenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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