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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2 vs. Hive vs. HyperSQL

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.h2database.comhive.apache.orghsqldb.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homehsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperAlibabaGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Thomas MuellerApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release2012200520122001
Current release2.2.220, July 20233.1.3, April 20222.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infobased on BSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaC++
Java
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceJava, SQL
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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