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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Blazegraph vs. GigaSpaces vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SiteWhere

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Document storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeGraph DBMS
Search engine
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Trend Chart
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgblazegraph.comwww.gigaspaces.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBlazegraphGigaspaces TechnologiesIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SiteWhere
Initial release20132006200020102010
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.1.5, March 201915.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava, C++, .NetErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesnoyes
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes, event driven architectureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Role-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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