DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Blazegraph vs. EDB Postgres vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Blazegraph vs. EDB Postgres vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Trino

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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

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

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	7.57
Rank	#51	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

blazegraph.com

www.enterprisedb.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

trino.io

Technical documentation

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

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon

Blazegraph

EnterpriseDB

Microsoft

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2015

2006

2005

1989

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

14, December 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

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

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

depending on connected data-source

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

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

SQL standard access control

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