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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. TDengine vs. TerarkDB vs. VoltDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Time Series DBMS and big data platformA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.82
Rank#205  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#107  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score1.38
Rank#156  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.tdengine.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAlibabaTDEngine, previously Taos DataByteDance, originally TerarkVoltDB Inc.
Initial release201920162010
Current release3.0, August 202211.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availablecommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC++Java, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsnoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
C++
Java
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoJava
Triggersyesyes, via alarm monitoringnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures
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Alibaba Cloud PolarDBTDengineTerarkDBVoltDB
Specific characteristicsPolarDB, previously ApsaraDB for PolarDB, is a cloud-native relational database designed...
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TDengine™ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantagesWebinar: Top Scientists Live: Tech Secrets to Double 11's Success Revealed. White...
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High Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenariosCreating a Robust Cloud-Based Database for Fintech, E-Commerce and Gaming. Learn...
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TDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSpecification and pricing. You can use either of the following billing methods to...
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TDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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