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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Riak KV vs. Rockset

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAlibabaOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesRockset
Initial release20092019
Current release3.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyes
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Implementation languageErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnodynamic typing
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.yesnono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesErlangno
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infono "single point of failure"Automatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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