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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.AlibabaIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release201620102013
Current release2.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedLinux
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJavaScript
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access control
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