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DBMS > Altibase vs. Blazegraph vs. DolphinDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Blazegraph vs. DolphinDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. VelocityDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.87
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#217  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score2.72
Rank#100  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
#5  Vector DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Websitealtibase.comblazegraph.comwww.dolphindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswiki.blazegraph.comdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperAltibaseBlazegraphDolphinDB, IncIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014VelocityDB Inc
Initial release19992006201820102011
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232.1.5, March 2019v2.00.4, January 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercial infofree community version availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++ErlangC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
hostedAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
TriggersyesnonoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Administrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseBased on Windows Authentication

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