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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbphoenix.apache.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewphoenix.apache.orgspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.AlibabaApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2016201420141987
Current release2.1, December 20185.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJavaScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoyes
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.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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