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DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. Blazegraph vs. MarkLogic vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Blazegraph vs. MarkLogic vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
RDF storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
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Trend Chart
Score2.29
Rank#113  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptuneblazegraph.comwww.progress.com/­marklogicrdf4j.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourceswiki.blazegraph.comwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperAmazonBlazegraphMarkLogic Corp.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.informationpartners gmbh
Initial release20172006200120042015
Current release2.1.5, March 201911.0, December 20221.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languageyes infoSQL92nono
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyesyes infoon the application server
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.yesyesnoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in Graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, with Range Indexesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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