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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Kinetica vs. OushuDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Kinetica vs. OushuDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.82
Rank#205  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#357  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#152  Overall
#14  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.kinetica.comwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.kinetica.comwww.oushu.com/­documentationdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperAlibabaKineticaOushu
Initial release20122017
Current release7.1, August 20214.0.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsFull-featured ANSI SQL supportSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesyes
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelKerberos, SSL and role based accessRole-based access control
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