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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. JanusGraph vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.69
Rank	#218	Overall
	#100	Relational DBMS

Score	1.69
Rank	#130	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

janusgraph.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

docs.janusgraph.org

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2016

2017

1994

Current release

1.0.0, October 2023

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Clojure
Java
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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