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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. etcd vs. Newts vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

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

A distributed reliable key-value store

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.59
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

opennms.github.io/newts

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

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

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Alibaba

OpenNMS Group

Percona

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2014

2015

Current release

3.4, August 2019

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

HTTP REST
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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