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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Blazegraph vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Blazegraph vs. Yaacomo

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Analytic DBMS for HadoopHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbimpala.apache.orgblazegraph.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwiki.blazegraph.com
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBlazegraphQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release201320062009
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.1.5, March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoRDF literal typesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSPARQL is used as query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in Graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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