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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Blazegraph vs. EsgynDB vs. HEAVY.AI

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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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#217	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

blazegraph.com

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Blazegraph

Esgyn

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2006

2015

2016

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

2.1.5, March 2019

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, Java

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

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, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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