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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. GeoMesa vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.geomesa.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAlibabaCCRi and othersDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20142018
Current release4.0.5, February 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layerGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layerJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole-based access control
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