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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. TerminusDB vs. Trino vs. VelocityDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQLA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score4.99
Rank#65  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseterminusdb.comtrino.iovelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#trino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperAlibabaIBMDataChemist Ltd.Trino Software FoundationVelocityDB Inc
Initial release201420182012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL2011
Current release11.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageProlog, RustJavaC#
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux
macOS infofor devlopment
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesno infoImport/export of XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesdepending on connected data-sourceyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
.Net
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPL/SQL, SQL PLyesyes, depending on connected data-sourceno
TriggersyesyesyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingGraph Partitioningdepending on connected data-sourceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesJournaling Streamsdepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-sourceImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDdepending on connected data-sourceACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingdepending on connected data-sourceyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlSQL standard access controlBased on Windows Authentication
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Alibaba Cloud PolarDBIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistTrinoVelocityDB
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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Key customersTrino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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