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

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

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Wide column storeMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographblazegraph.comcassandra.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwiki.blazegraph.comcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsBlazegraphApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release2018200620081991
Current release2.3, January 20212.1.5, March 20194.1.3, July 20235.7
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesoptional
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solution
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsApache 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
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyesnoyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusteryesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyes infoRelationships in Graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights can be defined down to the item level
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Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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