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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. EXASOL vs. Manticore Search vs. MonetDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. EXASOL vs. Manticore Search vs. MonetDB vs. RDF4J

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NameAlibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#266  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score2.47
Rank#119  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.78
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.72
Rank#234  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.exasol.commanticoresearch.comwww.monetdb.orgrdf4j.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwww.exasol.com/­resourcesmanual.manticoresearch.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaExasolManticore SoftwareMonetDB BVSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2000201720042004
Current release6.0, February 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++CJava
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFixed schemayesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
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.yesnoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Java
Lua
Python
R
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, Ryes
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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