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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. FatDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HugeGraph

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeGraph DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehugegraph.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaFatCloudGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Baidu
Initial release201220122018
Current release0.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC#Java
Server operating systemshostedWindowshostedLinux
macOS
Unix
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range index
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesno infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Groovy
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infovia applicationslimited functionality with using 'rules'asynchronous Gremlin script jobs
Triggersyesyes infovia applicationsCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnovia hugegraph-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoedges in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers, roles and permissions
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