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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Geode vs. HugeGraph

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.bigchaindb.comgeode.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgeode.apache.org/­docshugegraph.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Baidu
Initial release201620022018
Current release1.1, February 20170.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
macOS
Unix
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range index
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (OQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobs
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononovia hugegraph-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoedges in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
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-standardyesAccess rights per client and object definableUsers, roles and permissions
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