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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Blazegraph vs. JaguarDB vs. JanusGraph vs. KairosDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
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.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.77
Rank#222  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.09
Rank#356  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#135  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbblazegraph.comwww.jaguardb.comjanusgraph.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwiki.blazegraph.comwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.janusgraph.orgkairosdb.github.io
DeveloperAmazonBlazegraphDataJaguar, Inc.Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius
Initial release20072006201520172013
Current release2.1.5, March 20193.3 July 20230.6.3, February 20231.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languageA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replicationyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
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 configurationEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
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)rights management via user accountsUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serversimple password-based access control

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