DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Cassandra vs. atoti vs. Blazegraph vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Cassandra vs. atoti vs. Blazegraph vs. jBASE

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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

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	0.22
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	97.71
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#256	Overall
	#12	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.75
Rank	#214	Overall
	#18	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	1.39
Rank	#154	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

cassandra.apache.org

atoti.io

blazegraph.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

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

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.atoti.io

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

ActiveViam

Blazegraph

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2018

2008

2006

1991

Current release

2.3, January 2021

5.0-rc1, July 2024

2.1.5, March 2019

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SPARQL is used as query language

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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