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DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. Blazegraph vs. Spark SQL vs. Splunk vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Blazegraph vs. Spark SQL vs. Splunk vs. Transbase

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingAnalytics Platform for Big DataA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
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Score2.20
Rank#119  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptuneblazegraph.comspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.splunk.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourceswiki.blazegraph.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAmazonBlazegraphApache Software FoundationSplunk Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20172006201420031987
Current release2.1.5, March 20193.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
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.yesnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
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)noAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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