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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. GeoMesa vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. GeoMesa vs. NSDb

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.82
Rank#205  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.geomesa.orgnsdb.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperAlibabaCCRi and others
Initial release20142017
Current release5.0.1, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaJava, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage
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