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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Blazegraph vs. Brytlyt vs. EJDB vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Blazegraph vs. Brytlyt vs. EJDB vs. RDFox

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.38
Rank#276  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orgblazegraph.combrytlyt.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.brytlyt.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBlazegraphBrytlytSoftmotionsOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20132006201620122017
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.1.5, March 20195.0, August 20236.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC, C++ and CUDACC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSPARQL is used as query languageyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
in-process shared libraryRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesuser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replicationnonereplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoRead/Write Locking
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRoles, resources, and access types

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