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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. RethinkDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. RethinkDB vs. STSdb

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
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.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.gbase.cnfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorerethinkdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorerethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GoogleThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017STS Soft SC
Initial release2004201720092011
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.4.1, August 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC++C#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesStandard with numerous extensionsnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsno
Triggersyesyesyes, with Cloud FunctionsClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflowyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.yes infousers and table-level permissionsno
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