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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Blazegraph vs. Hypertable vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Blazegraph vs. Hypertable vs. TimesTen

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Wide column storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbphoenix.apache.orgblazegraph.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewphoenix.apache.orgwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationBlazegraphHypertable Inc.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release2014200620091998
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.1.5, March 20190.9.8.11, March 201611 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoRDF literal typesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSPARQL is used as query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
C++ API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesnoPL/SQL
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
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 Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancySecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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