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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. AnzoGraph DB

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NameAlibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.49
Rank#266  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score9.05
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#148  Overall
#25  Document stores
Score0.31
Rank#295  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroraaws.amazon.com/­documentdbcambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htm
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonCambridge Semantics
Initial release201520192018
Current release2.3, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesno
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Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnouser defined functions and aggregates
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningnoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasMulti-source replication in MPP-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)Kerberos/HDFS data loading
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleno infonot needed in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and roles
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Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDBAmazon AuroraAmazon DocumentDBAnzoGraph DB
Specific characteristicsApsaraDB for PolarDB is a cloud-native relational database 100% compatible with MySQL...
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