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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OrigoDB vs. PouchDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsorigodb.compouchdb.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsorigodb.com/­docspouchdb.com/­guidesterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAlibabaMicrosoftRobert Friberg et alApache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20162009 infounder the name LiveDB20122018
Current release7.1.1, June 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C#JavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsnoyes
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.yesnono infocan be achieved using .NETnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
Java
PHP
.NetJavaScriptJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQLyesView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesnoyes infoDomain Eventsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsdepending on modelnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoin-memory journaling
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-standardyesRole based authorizationnoRole-based access control
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