DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Blazegraph vs. ClickHouse vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Blazegraph vs. ClickHouse vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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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

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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.75
Rank	#219	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

blazegraph.com

clickhouse.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

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

wiki.blazegraph.com

clickhouse.com/docs

kairosdb.github.io

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Blazegraph

Clickhouse Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2018

2006

2016

2013

2016

Current release

2.3, January 2021

2.1.5, March 2019

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SPARQL is used as query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

key based and custom

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Relationships in Graphs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

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

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

simple password-based access control

yes

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