DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. jBASE vs. MySQL vs. PostGIS vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. jBASE vs. MySQL vs. PostGIS vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Widely used open source RDBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Spatial DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.59
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.mysql.com

postgis.net

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

dev.mysql.com/doc

postgis.net/documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

1991

1995

2005

2001

Current release

5.7

8.4.0, April 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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