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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. gStore vs. LokiJS vs. MonetDB vs. Transbase

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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.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.66
Rank	#235	Overall
	#108	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

en.gstore.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.monetdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Alibaba

MonetDB BV

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2014

2004

1987

Current release

1.2, November 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JavaScript API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

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

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

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