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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Druid vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbdruid.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designhugegraph.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsBaiduIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release2012201820102015
Current release29.0.1, April 20240.93.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
macOS
Unix
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL for queryingnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparkyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoedges in graphnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accounts
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