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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Drill vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographdrill.apache.orgwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdrill.apache.org/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAlibabaCambridge SemanticsApache Software FoundationSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release201820122013
Current release2.3, January 20211.20.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++
Java
Python
C++.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsJavaScript
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceAutomatic shardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusternoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infonot needed in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesDepending on the underlying data sourceno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesDepending on the underlying data sourcesimple password-based access control
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