DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Blazegraph vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Blazegraph vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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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

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#303	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

blazegraph.com

www.jaguardb.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Amazon

Cambridge Semantics

Blazegraph

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2007

2018

2006

2015

2014

Current release

2.3, January 2021

2.1.5, March 2019

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

JSON types

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

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

SPARQL is used as query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

JDBC
ODBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Relationships in Graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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 can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

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

rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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