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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. atoti vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RDF4J vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. atoti vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RDF4J vs. SpaceTime

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NameAlibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#266  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score0.56
Rank#249  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score78.51
Rank#15  Overall
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.72
Rank#234  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#394  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbatoti.ioazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaserdf4j.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.atoti.iodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaActiveViamMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Mireo
Initial release201020042020
Current releaseV12
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree versions availablecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)yesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPythonTransact SQLyesno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding, horizontal partitioningnoneFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, with always 3 replicas availablenoneReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes
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