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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. gStore vs. Linter vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

RDBMS for high security requirements

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.66
Rank	#235	Overall
	#108	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Alibaba

relex.ru

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

1990

2018

2011

Current release

1.2, November 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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