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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. RDFox

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.bigchaindb.comblazegraph.comwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperBlazegraphOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release2019201620062017
Current release2.1.5, March 20196.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoRDF literal typesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSPARQL is used as query languageno
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasselectable replication factoryesreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyes infoRelationships in Graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Roles, resources, and access types

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