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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. Memcached

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.gbase.cngeospock.comwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperAlibabaGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GeoSpockDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release20042003
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.0, September 20191.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJava, JavascriptC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesStandard with numerous extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol
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