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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Drizzle vs. Hyprcubd vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Drizzle vs. Hyprcubd vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Serverless Time Series DBMSDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbblazegraph.comhyprcubd.com (offline)www.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwiki.blazegraph.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperAlibabaBlazegraphDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerHyprcubd, Inc.IBM
Initial release200620082017
Current release2.1.5, March 20197.2.4, September 20122.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++GoC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSPARQL is used as query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languageyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtime
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBCgRPC (https)ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonoyes
Triggersyesnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoNo - written data is immutable
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Pluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPtoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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