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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SQL.JS

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud servicePort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.82
Rank#205  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score41.32
Rank#23  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#246  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbrocksdb.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlsql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikihelp.sap.com/­hanasql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaFacebook, Inc.SAPAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release201320102012
Current release9.4.0, June 20242.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageC++JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAppliance or cloud-serviceserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoSQLScript, Rno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesno
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