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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Heroic vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InfluxDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Heroic vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InfluxDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchCloud-based data warehousing serviceDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaSpotifyIBMSiteWhere
Initial release2014201420132010
Current release2.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoPL/SQL, SQL PLno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
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.yesnoyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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Alibaba Cloud PolarDBHeroicIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBInfluxDBSiteWhere
Specific characteristicsPolarDB, previously ApsaraDB for PolarDB, is a cloud-native relational database designed...
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesWebinar: Top Scientists Live: Tech Secrets to Double 11's Success Revealed. White...
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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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