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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Graph Engine vs. Sadas Engine

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Analytic DBMS for HadoopA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbimpala.apache.orgwww.graphengine.iowww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaMicrosoftSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release201320102006
Current release4.1.0, June 20228.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++.NET and CC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux.NETAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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