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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. GeoSpock vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. GeoSpock vs. SQream DB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scalea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbgeospock.comsqream.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAlibabaGeoSpockSQream Technologies
Initial release2017
Current release2.0, September 20192022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesno
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceAutomatic shardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per table
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