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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Faircom DB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.82
Rank#205  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#217  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.18
Rank#314  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbaws.amazon.com/­documentdbblazegraph.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-db
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceswiki.blazegraph.comdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html
DeveloperAlibabaBlazegraphFairCom Corporation
Initial release201920061979
Current release2.1.5, March 2019V13, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercial infoRestricted, free version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoRDF literal typesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSPARQL is used as query languageyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasyesyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyes infoRelationships in Graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-document operationsACIDtunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory
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 and rolesSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files
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