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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. SAP IQ vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.81
Rank	#209	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS

Score	2.53
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Alibaba

SAP, formerly Sybase

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1994

2018

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

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