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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. GBase vs. InfluxDB vs. searchxml vs. WakandaDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.gbase.cnwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswakanda.github.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAlibabaGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.informationpartners gmbhWakanda SAS
Initial release2004201320152012
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.7.6, April 20241.02.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonGoC++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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.yesyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoyes infoon the application serveryes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoin enterprise version onlynonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnomultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyessimple rights management via user accountsDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesyes
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