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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Bangdb vs. mSQL vs. Titan

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbbangdb.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.bangdb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperAlibabaSachin Sinha, BangDBHughes TechnologiesAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release201219942012
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20214.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++CJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyes
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 indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL like support with command line toolA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, run db with in-memory only modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes (enterprise version only)noUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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