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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Graph Engine vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Graph Engine vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  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 assetsA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineSpatial extension of H2Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.bigchaindb.comwww.graphengine.iowww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homespotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAlibabaMicrosoftCNRSSpotify
Initial release2016201020132014
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePython.NET and CJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux.NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes infobased on H2no
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factoryes infobased on H2yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDBoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesyes infobased on H2
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