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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. ObjectBox vs. PostGIS vs. TempoIQ

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileSpatial extension of PostgreSQLScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbobjectbox.iopostgis.nettempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.objectbox.iopostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaObjectBox LimitedTempoIQ
Initial release201720052012
Current release3.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLsimple authentication-based access control
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