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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Spark SQL vs. SwayDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlspark.apache.org/­sqlswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAlibabaOracleApache Software FoundationSimer Plaha
Initial release201120142018
Current release23.3, December 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaScala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)noAtomic execution of operations
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.yesyes infooff heap cachenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesnono
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