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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Dgraph vs. GeoSpock vs. JaguarDB vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Dgraph vs. GeoSpock vs. JaguarDB vs. Lovefield

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMSSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scalePerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#14  Vector DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbdgraph.iogeospock.comwww.jaguardb.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdgraph.io/­docswww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperAlibabaDgraph Labs, Inc.GeoSpockDataJaguar, Inc.Google
Initial release201620152014
Current release2.0, September 20193.3 July 20232.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoJava, JavascriptC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononono
TriggersyesnononoUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesAutomatic shardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights for users can be defined per tablerights management via user accountsno
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