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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Drizzle vs. mSQL vs. Rockset

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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.
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.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbblazegraph.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAlibabaBlazegraphDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerHughes TechnologiesRockset
Initial release2006200819942019
Current release2.1.5, March 20197.2.4, September 20124.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++CC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesdynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSPARQL is used as query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonono
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 serviceShardingShardingnoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes
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 configurationnoneEventual 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 datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
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, HTTPnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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