DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Axibase vs. Blazegraph vs. MySQL vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Axibase vs. Blazegraph vs. MySQL vs. Valentina Server

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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

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	8.50
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.77
Rank	#222	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#329	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

blazegraph.com

www.mysql.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

wiki.blazegraph.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Amazon

Axibase Corporation

Blazegraph

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2015

2013

2006

1995

1999

Current release

15585

2.1.5, March 2019

8.3.0, January 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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