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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Blazegraph vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. H2GIS vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Blazegraph vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. H2GIS vs. SpaceTime

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  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.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Spatial extension of H2SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Wide column store
Spatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.27
Rank#302  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.77
Rank#222  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score3.58
Rank#92  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographblazegraph.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.h2gis.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwiki.blazegraph.comcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­home
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsBlazegraphGoogleCNRSMireo
Initial release20182006201520132020
Current release2.3, January 20212.1.5, March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesnoyesyes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SPARQL is used as query languagenoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
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
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaC#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyesnoyes infobased on H2no
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingShardingnoneFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusteryesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes infobased on H2Real-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-row operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infobased on H2yes

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