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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Graphite vs. MongoDB vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

A 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 assets

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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Score	0.82
Rank	#205	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	5.19
Rank	#62	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	410.24
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#345	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.mongodb.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

Developer

Alibaba

Chris Davis

MongoDB, Inc

Initial release

2016

2006

2009

Current release

7.0.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

optional, enabled by default

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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Key customers

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