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

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.geomesa.orgwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAlibabaCCRi and othersSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20142013
Current release5.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJavaScript
Triggersyesnono
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 layerSource-replica replication
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 dataACIDnoDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagesimple password-based access control
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