DBMS > Altibase vs. Blazegraph vs. Couchbase vs. OrigoDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Blazegraph vs. Couchbase vs. OrigoDB vs. SpaceTime

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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

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

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

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.couchbase.com

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Altibase

Blazegraph

Couchbase, Inc.

Robert Friberg et al

Mireo

Initial release

1999

2006

2011

2009

under the name LiveDB

2020

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.1.5, March 2019

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

Role based authorization

yes

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