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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Blazegraph vs. H2 vs. MaxDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#217	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Blazegraph

Thomas Mueller

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2014

2006

2005

1984

2014

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

2.2.220, July 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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