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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Kinetica vs. NSDb vs. OpenMLDB vs. TimesTen

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenMLDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesAn open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inferenceIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#367  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.kinetica.comnsdb.ioopenmldb.aiwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.kinetica.comnsdb.io/­Architectureopenmldb.ai/­docs/­zh/­maindocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAlibabaKinetica4 Paradigm Inc.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release2012201720201998
Current release7.1, August 20212024-2 February 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, C++Java, ScalaC++, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
SQLAlchemy
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnonoPL/SQL
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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