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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. atoti vs. SAP IQ vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.82
Rank	#205	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#253	Overall
	#13	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

atoti.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

docs.atoti.io

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Alibaba

ActiveViam

SAP, formerly Sybase

Mireo

Initial release

1994

2020

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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