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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Blazegraph vs. Datomic vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ingres

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Blazegraph vs. Datomic vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ingres

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  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.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesWell established RDBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographblazegraph.comwww.datomic.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.datomic.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsBlazegraphCognitectIBMActian Corporation
Initial release20182006201220171974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current release2.3, January 20212.1.5, March 20191.0.7075, December 20232.011.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureC and C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes 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.nononono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SPARQL is used as query languagenoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes
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
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyesyes infoTransaction Functionsyesyes
TriggersnonoBy using transaction functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusteryesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersActive-active shard replicationIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesNo - written data is immutableyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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