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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Kinetica vs. Newts vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 CPUsTime Series DBMS based on CassandraJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.kinetica.comopennms.github.io/­newtspouchdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAlibabaKineticaOpenNMS GroupApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release2012201420122011
Current release7.1, August 20217.1.1, June 20194.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaJavaScriptC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnonono
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