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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon Neptune vs. InfinityDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloudA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score2.20
Rank#119  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbaws.amazon.com/­neptuneboilerbay.comwww.progress.com/­openedgerealm.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonBoiler Bay Inc.Progress Software CorporationRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release2017200219842014
Current release4.0OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes infoclose to SQL 92no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersyesnonoyesyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4none
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.noneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes infoIn-Memory realm
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)noUsers and groupsyes
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