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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon Neptune vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. FatDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloudScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score2.20
Rank#119  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbaws.amazon.com/­neptunecambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htm
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonCambridge SemanticsFatCloud
Initial release201720182012
Current release2.3, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC#
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.no infoVia inetgration in SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Python
C#
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions and aggregatesyes infovia applications
Triggersyesnonoyes infovia applications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.Multi-source replication in MPP-Clusterselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoKerberos/HDFS data loadingyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno infonot needed in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyes
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 roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and rolesno infoCan implement custom security layer via applications
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