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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Pinecone vs. STSdb

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  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 PlatformHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A managed, cloud-native vector databaseKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.hawkular.orgwww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleCommunity supported by Red HatPinecone Systems, IncSTS Soft SC
Initial release2008201420192011
Current release4.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC#
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, details hereyesString, Number, Booleanyes 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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (GQL)nonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
PythonC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesusing Google App Enginenono
TriggersyesCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyes infovia Hawkular Alertingno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication using Paxosselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
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.Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
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 datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
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)nono
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