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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. FileMaker vs. Quasardb vs. RDF4J vs. Riak KV

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRDF storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.claris.com/­filemakerquasar.airdf4j.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAlibabaClaris infoa subsidiary of ApplequasardbSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release1983200920042009
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.14.1, January 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaErlang
Server operating systemshostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesno
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.yesyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
PHP.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
PHP
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyesErlang
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnoyes, using Riak Security
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