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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. HEAVY.AI vs. STSdb

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbcloud.google.com/­datastoregithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.heavy.ai
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleHEAVY.AI, Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release200820162011
Current release5.10, January 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC#
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, details hereyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (GQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesusing Google App Enginenono
TriggersyesCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoRound robinnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication using PaxosMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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