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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. AllegroGraph vs. EXASOL vs. Kingbase vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.66
Rank	#235	Overall
	#108	Relational DBMS

Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Franz Inc.

Exasol

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2004

2000

1999

2014

Current release

8.0, December 2023

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

bulk load of XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

with Federation

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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