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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Graph Engine vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Graph Engine vs. TempoIQ

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbblazegraph.comwww.graphengine.iotempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwiki.blazegraph.comwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manual
DeveloperAmazonBlazegraphMicrosoftTempoIQ
Initial release2007200620102012
Current release2.1.5, March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJava.NET and C
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
.NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoRDF literal typesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesno
Triggersnononoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
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)simple authentication-based access control

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