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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Interbase vs. SpatiaLite vs. Sqrrl vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Interbase vs. SpatiaLite vs. Sqrrl vs. Tigris

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandSpatial extension of SQLiteAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.82
Rank#205  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#359  Overall
#50  Document stores
#52  Key-value stores
#23  Search engines
#37  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexsqrrl.comwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaEmbarcaderoAlessandro FurieriAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.Tigris Data, Inc.
Initial release1984200820122022
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20195.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC++Java
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
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 infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenonono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneSharding infomaking use of HadoopSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceInterbase Change Viewsnoneselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoopyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, using FoundationDB
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-standardnoCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)Access rights for users and roles
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