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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. etcd vs. GeoMesa vs. Hive vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.A distributed reliable key-value storeGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.geomesa.orghive.apache.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
www.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Home
DeveloperAlibabaCCRi and othersApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release201420122009
Current release3.4, August 20195.0.0, May 20243.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoScalaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersyesyes, watching key changesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layerShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.depending on storage layerselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnodepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno
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