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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Hypertable vs. RavenDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Hypertable vs. RavenDB vs. Vitess

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbravendb.netvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewravendb.net/­docsvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaHypertable Inc.Hibernating RhinosThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release200920102013
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20165.4, July 202215.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C#Go
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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.yes
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (RQL)yes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
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 proceduresyesnoyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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