DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Blazegraph vs. CouchDB vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Blazegraph vs. CouchDB vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS

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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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

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

Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

blazegraph.com

couchdb.apache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

spotify.github.io/heroic

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Blazegraph

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Spotify

Initial release

2012

2006

2005

2014

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

3.3.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

via views

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SPARQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in Graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single document possible

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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