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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. SiriDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. XTDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreOpen Source Time Series DBMSA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbaws.amazon.com/­simpledbsiridb.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlingithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.siridb.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonCesbitJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2007201720092019
Current release1.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJavaClojure
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoNumeric datayesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APITinkerPop 3HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Groovy
Java
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyesnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptionalyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
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)simple rights management via user accountsno
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