DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Cassandra vs. jBASE vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Cassandra vs. jBASE vs. searchxml

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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

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#131	Overall
	#24	Document stores

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

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

blazegraph.com

cassandra.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

wiki.blazegraph.com

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Blazegraph

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2019

2006

2008

1991

2015

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

4.1.3, July 2023

5.7

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

optional

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Relationships in Graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Access rights for users and roles

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Apple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metrics

Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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