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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Vitess

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.A widely adopted in-memory data gridA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilitiesScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeWide column storeMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score3.16
Rank#97  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbhazelcast.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidatavitess.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidatavitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaHazelcastMicrosoftRocket SoftwareThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2008201219852013
Current release5.3.6, November 202315.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaCGo
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptionalyes
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.yesyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJava API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnoyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesyes infoEventsnoyes infoU2 Basicyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoReplicated Mapyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedoptimistic lockingACID infoconfigurableACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system basedUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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