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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Blazegraph vs. Hive vs. Spark SQL

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score62.59
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score19.15
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographblazegraph.comhive.apache.orgspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwiki.blazegraph.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsBlazegraphApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookApache Software Foundation
Initial release2018200620122014
Current release2.3, January 20212.1.5, March 20193.1.3, April 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statements
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
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusteryesselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyes infoRelationships in Graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users, groups and rolesno

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