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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database

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Name

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

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

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

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.75
Rank	#219	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

blazegraph.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

wiki.blazegraph.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

Developer

Alibaba

Blazegraph

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Initial release

2006

2012

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

SPARQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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