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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. JanusGraph vs. Solr

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeGraph DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbbigobject.iowww.ehcache.orgjanusgraph.orgsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.bigobject.iowww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.janusgraph.orgsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperAlibabaBigObject, Inc.Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AGLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusApache Software Foundation
Initial release2015200920172006
Current release3.10.0, March 20220.6.3, February 20239.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
JavaClojure
Java
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuanoyesJava plugins
Triggersyesnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoby using Terracotta Serveryes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginespark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serveryes
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