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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. AllegroGraph vs. Geode vs. Graphite vs. Transbase

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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 DBMSGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardballegrograph.comgeode.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlgeode.apache.org/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAlibabaFranz Inc.Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Chris DavisTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2004200220061987
Current release8.0, December 20231.1, February 2017Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.yesno infobulk load of XML files possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query language (OQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicewith FederationShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes, on a single nodenoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights per client and object definablenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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