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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. JSqlDb vs. PostGIS

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.hawkular.orgjsqldb.org (offline)postgis.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidepostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaCommunity supported by Red HatKonrad von Backstrom
Initial release201420182005
Current release0.8, December 20183.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnofunctions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on Cassandranoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
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 infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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