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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Blazegraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Postgres-XL vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Blazegraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Postgres-XL vs. Yanza

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlblazegraph.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.postgres-xl.orgyanza.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmwiki.blazegraph.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaBlazegraphIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Yanza
Initial release200620102014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2015
Current release2.1.5, March 201910 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesnoyesno
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.yesnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSPARQL is used as query languagenoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLBlazegraphIBM CloudantPostgres-XLYanza
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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