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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Hazelcast vs. TerminusDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.A widely adopted in-memory data gridScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
RDF store
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbhazelcast.comterminusdb.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAlibabaHazelcastDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release200820182009
Current release5.3.6, November 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaProlog, RustJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
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.yesyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyesno
Triggersyesyes infoEventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoReplicated MapJournaling Streamsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithmnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlRole-based access controlno
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