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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. BigObject vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SwayDB vs. TypeDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  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 queriesOracles in-memory data grid solutionAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
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
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbbigobject.iowww.oracle.com/­java/­coherenceswaydb.simer.autypedb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.bigobject.iodocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencetypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaBigObject, Inc.OracleSimer PlahaVaticle
Initial release2015200720182016
Current release14.1, August 20232.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaJava
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
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Java
Kotlin
Scala
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuanonono
Triggersyesnoyes infoLive Eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingnoneSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes, with selectable consistency levelnoneMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoconfigurableAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionallyyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationnoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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