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DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Blazegraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Blazegraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Yanza

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Search engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.20
Rank#175  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score0.77
Rank#222  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score134.78
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score22.71
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Websitekylin.apache.orgblazegraph.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsyanza.com
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docswiki.blazegraph.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncBlazegraphElasticMicrosoftYanza
Initial release20152006201020162015
Current release3.1.0, July 20202.1.5, March 20198.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)SPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesTransact SQLno
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noMemcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yesno

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