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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. PostGIS vs. Sequoiadb vs. Spark SQL vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbpostgis.netwww.sequoiadb.comspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewpostgis.net/­documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAlibabaSequoiadb Ltd.Apache Software FoundationTimescale
Initial release2005201320142017
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC++ScalaC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.yesyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsJavaScriptnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingyes, utilizing Spark Coreyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDDocument is locked during a transactionnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLsimple password-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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