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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Interbase vs. RocksDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score1.35
Rank#154  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score3.56
Rank#76  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score2.73
Rank#97  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaserocksdb.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperAlibabaEmbarcaderoFacebook, Inc.
Initial release19842013
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20199.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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 infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageno
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceInterbase Change Viewsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
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-standardno
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