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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Galaxybase vs. HugeGraph vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

A 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 HBase

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.66
Rank	#235	Overall
	#108	Relational DBMS

Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

phoenix.apache.org

galaxybase.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

phoenix.apache.org

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Baidu

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2014

2017

2018

2021

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

Nov 20, November 2021

0.9

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Go
Java
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

user defined procedures and functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Role-based access control

Users, roles and permissions

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