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DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Blazegraph vs. Datomic vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Blazegraph vs. Datomic vs. jBASE

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorablazegraph.comwww.datomic.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.datomic.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperAmazonBlazegraphCognitectRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release2015200620121991
Current release2.1.5, March 20191.0.7075, December 20235.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, Clojure
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesoptional
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSPARQL is used as query languagenoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes infoTransaction Functionsyes
TriggersyesnoBy using transaction functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in Graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)noAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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