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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Graphite vs. HarperDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.harperdb.iowww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperAlibabaChris DavisHarperDB
Initial release200620172017
Current release3.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree community edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonNode.jsC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesyesdynamic schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infoJSON data typesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yes
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be defined
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic execution of specific operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access control
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