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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. Solr vs. TDengine

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbopennms.github.io/­newtsquasar.aisolr.apache.orggithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
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Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­mastersolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperAlibabaOpenNMS GroupquasardbApache Software FoundationTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release2014200920062019
Current release3.14.1, January 20249.6.0, April 20243.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoJava pluginsno
Triggersyesnonoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyesyes
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Alibaba Cloud PolarDBNewtsQuasardbSolrTDengine
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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