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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. HyperSQL vs. JanusGraph vs. mSQL vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. HyperSQL vs. JanusGraph vs. mSQL vs. ToroDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbhsqldb.orgjanusgraph.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.janusgraph.org
DeveloperAlibabaLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusHughes Technologies8Kdata
Initial release2001201719942016
Current release2.7.2, June 20230.6.3, February 20234.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava, SQLyesno
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes
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-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServernoAccess rights for users and roles
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